Sherrye Willis Quotes & Sayings

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents ... — Douglas Wilson

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy) — John F. Kennedy

Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed. — Samuel Johnson

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness. — Eddie Huang

He didn't say a word or do an action that did not have a purpose — Bill Clinton

The conversation is happening about your brand whether
you're a part of it or not. — Seth Godin

God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else. — Joyce Meyer

At bottom, the court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics. — John Paul Stevens

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. — Evan Esar

Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Friendship affords total certitude above all and that is what distinguishes it from love. It means respect as well and total acceptance of another being. — Marguerite Yourcenar