Standers United Quotes & Sayings

[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women. — Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self. — Guy Finley

If it had been a color, it might have been green. If it had touched her ears, it might have sounded rhythmic, like the creak of a rocking chair or drone of a bee. If it had a scent, it might have been sweet and drowsy, like fresh pine on the fire. — Shannon Hale

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian. — Philippe Perrin

I wuff aunt Newwy's chippen! — Heather Brewer

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire. — Slavoj Zizek

TRUTH is the true victim today. Truth has become the politically incorrect "No-No" born from fear of government, school peer and/or family pressures and penalties, or just plain evasion, lying, cheating, and/or corruption-laden behavior on personal and business levels. — Alexandra York

Sad really that people would rather focus on what makes them different than on what makes them the same ... compassion, hope." He glanced from Kody to Nick. "Love. For all the differences between us, we're more alike than anyone wants to admit." And — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva. — Ernest Hollings

The water's not even blue, jackass. — Leah Clifford

This is my greatest obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, it all collapses. — Isaac Marion

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence ... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion. — William Godwin