Shelswell Barrie Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer, — Ursula K. Le Guin

There is a difference between outcome and impact. Many people assume that because the encampments are gone and nothing tangible was produced, that there was no outcome. But when we think about the impact of these imaginative and innovative actions and these moments where people learned how to be together without the scaffolding of the state, when they learned to solve problems without succumbing to the impulse of calling the police, that should serve as a true inspiration for the work that we will do in the future to build these transnational solidarities. — Angela Y. Davis

If you tolerate cruel people,
you tolerate evil people.
If you persecute kind people,
you persecute righteous people. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I hope that I am still racing at 50, as long as I can get out of bed. — Justin Allgaier

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town. — Michael Jackson

Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the work of preparing, prevening grace, which draws us gradually toward wishing to please God. Grace is working quietly at the point of our desiring, bringing us in time to despair over our own unrighteousness, challenging our perverse dispositions, so that our distorted wills cease gradually to resist the gift of God. — Thomas C. Oden

That's how New York looked: like a gorgeous, easy thing to have, even for me. — Jennifer Egan

You do realize this makes your wings even more unique."
"Are you saying you shot me as a cosmetic procedure? — Nalini Singh

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner, — Warren G. Harding

The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher. — Dean Martin

Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly? — Emily Dickinson

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. — Harold Rosenberg