Sondescent Quotes & Sayings

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' — Daniel Tammet

It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie. — Ralph Ellison

Just like our eyes, our hearts have a way of adjusting to the dark. — Adam Stanley

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound. — Chad Sugg

THE TWAIN DOTH MEET
East and West are relative to their shared starting point
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself." — Bocafloja

I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another. — Ewan McGregor

Life was a little like that, I guess. We'd spend so long chasing after something already in motion, always out of reach and calling, just ahead. — Mackenzie Herbert

I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you. — Whitney Houston

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made. — Swami Vivekananda

Women's groups follow a double standard: When women lag behind men, that is an injustice that must be aggressively targeted. But when men are lagging behind women, that is a triumph of equity to be celebrated. — Helen Smith

The recession came and we decided it would save a lot of bother if we just slept through it. So we programmed the computers to revive us when it was all over. — Douglas Adams

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I was dealing with governance in both instances, and individual responsibilities, and enmities and friendship. In a university, professors and others are always vying for power, and there's really no power there. If you have any power at all, it's a nothing. It's really odd that these things should happen in a university but they do. Except in scale, the machinations for power are about the same in a university as in the Roman Empire or Washington. — John Edward Williams