Speirs And Major Quotes & Sayings

You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else. — Mitch Albom

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions. — Barack Obama

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female. — Oscar Wilde

Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers. — Gyorgy Lukacs

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. — Peter Shaffer

I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights. — David Oyelowo

Poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing. — May Sarton

But while it is often necessary to make sacrifices of time, short-term gratification or non-essential desires for the long-term benefit of a relationship (or a partner), it is never desirable to sacrifice your self for a relationship. — Franklin Veaux

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow. — Jean De La Fontaine

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides. — George Harrison

We are here to question and yearn. If we deal with our nature in a healthy way, this yearning makes us grow. — Deepak Chopra