Svegal Quotes & Sayings

Accountability only works if you want it to. — Dillon Burroughs

be raised only by the Royal Navy and replenishment, for Lowe's guns had — Tom Pocock

...one of those moments had just passed, a moment in which normalcy becomes crisis and then flips back so fast it's hard to hang onto the significance of what has just happened" (143). — Jo Deurbrouck

When I began to do a little public speaking, one of the questions I heard most often was, "What good is science fiction to Black people?" I was usually asked this by a Black person ...
What good is science fiction's thinking about the present, the future, and the past? What good is its tendency to warn or to consider alternative ways of thinking and doing? What good is its examination of the possible effects of science and technology, or social organization and political direction? At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow footpath of what "everyone" is saying, doing, thinking
whoever "everyone" happens to be this year.
And what good is all this to Black people? — Octavia E. Butler

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you. — Rabindranath Tagore

In their matching candy-stripe shirts, the Beach Boys were America's biggest band of the early '60s, transmitting utopian bulletins of summer without end to a cold and overcast nation. — Steve Erickson

Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle. — Ezra Taft Benson

When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected ... part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

It's not imagination on my part when I say that to look up at the sky, the clouds, the moon, and the stars make me calm and patient. It's a better medicine than either valerian or bromine; Mother nature makes me humble and prepared to face every blow courageously. — Anne Frank

My own family basically did what the American justice system does: I was given more lenient treatment than the black kids. — Trevor Noah

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field. — Dennis Miller

The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count. — Rich Sommer