Spotos Quotes & Sayings

Americans believe in the reality of "race" as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism - the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them - inevitably follows from this inalterable condition. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Goodness knows what the world is coming to when park rangers carry service revolvers. — Bill Bryson

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details. — Marie Rutkoski

In other countries, the bureaucracy serves the needs of the people and the state; here, the bureaucracy itself is primary, and it takes precedence over the needs of the people and the state. — S.Y. Agnon

When you fall in love, waves of joy fill your dreams and become your reality while your realities become your dreams. — Debasish Mridha

It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived. — Amanda Nuri

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way. — George W. Bush

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it. — Confucius

The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation. But people either relate to you as an Indian or as a woman. They relate to you as a category. A lot of people don't realize that I am not that different from everyone else. — Winona LaDuke

The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good. — Betty Dodson

Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you CAN judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a hearts true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are the true words of the heart. — Suzy Kassem

Even the most motivated and intelligent student will advance more quickly under the tutelage of someone who knows the best order in which to learn things, who understands and can demonstrate the proper way to perform various skills, who can provide useful feedback, and who can devise practice activities designed to overcome particular weaknesses. — Anders Ericsson

Things are perfect only in the eye of the beholder. It's the uniqueness that drives us. Life isn't about what is perfect for everybody else; it's about what is perfect for you. — A.E. Woodward