Sportech Rye Quotes & Sayings

First of all, even nice people can be racists, because racism does not depend on malicious intent. It is not a requirement for you to consciously hate someone who is of a different skin color for you to be racist. Let me repeat. You do not need to actively hate someone who is of a different race than you to do racist crap and hold racist views. — Luvvie Ajayi

people coming out of church
conversing about the sermon
sniffing at the autumn air
something in the papers about forces of popular opinion
and values which are unto our nation

what is
holding you back, Catullus?
why don't you go and die?
the stalks of the potato-plants
are rotting fast this year
only October now

this evening away
A boy comes out of the wood,
crossbow on his shoulder — Pentti Saarikoski

Charlie Ledley - curiously uncertain Charlie Ledley - was odd in his belief that the best way to make money on Wall Street was to seek out whatever it was that Wall Street believed was least likely to happen, and bet on its happening. — Michael Lewis

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy. — Will Rogers

Few Indians or castes fought to forge a new nation called Mexico; such a scheme would have made little sense, and held little interest, for them. They fought in the hope that their lot in life might in some way improve. The — Timothy J. Henderson

All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within. — Seneca.

When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her
she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined. — Jenny Downham

A predator on land is prey in the sea. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It has been a day of wonder, this, our first day in the forest. — Ayn Rand

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo. — Nicole Appleton

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business. — Venus Williams

I never met a word I didn't love — Gail Carson Levine

The most important truths can always withstand a little examination. — Brandon Sanderson

The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products. — Bill Gates

Often, we find ourselves wedged in the middle of a draining conversation. We might desperately want to dislodge ourselves from the interaction, but instead we stay in receiving mode, absorbing their words like a slow-acting poison. — Michaela Chung