Solemos In English Quotes & Sayings

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. — H.L. Mencken

I couldn't miss the irony, not as a forty-two-year-old native of the segregated South, still fighting to earn respect in the color-conscious world of American business. How often had my parents and grandparents, other family members and friends, and I myself been directed to the back door of a bus, a restaurant, or a theater because we were considered second class, even after paying a first-class price for service! But that night we were treated to courtesies that even President Nixon could not enjoy: entering through the lobby, approaching the front desk, quietly registering, and being assisted to our room by the highly trained wait staff. A familiar portion of a Bible verse came to mind. The last shall be first and the first last (Matt. 20:16). — John Barfield

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date. — Cher

Driggs silently handed her the remainder of his own pizza, then watched with amusement as she wrestled with how to humbly accept it. Eventually she gave up on decorum and shoved the whole thing into her mouth in about two bites, a messy decision that she instantly regretted.

"You've got sauce in your nostril," Driggs informed her.

Lex sighed. "Of course I do." She grabbed a nearby leaf and tended to the situation. "Better?"

"Radiant — Gina Damico

I Am a Child Of God. And He has sent me here. Has given me an earthly home, with parents kind and dear. Lead me, guide me, walk beside me. Help me find the way. Teach me all that I must do to live with him someday. — The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. — Matthew Arnold

There are no honest poems about dead women. — Audre Lorde

I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder. — Bill Withers

Seven years after I saw the pictures of those doors, I received my first adult passport. I wish I had come to it sooner. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm a competitive type of person, whether it's playing a game of basketball or playing business games. — Chuck Feeney