Systemizing Modern Quotes & Sayings

America understands itself as God's handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are not women that are on welfare, these are working women. How different would there life be if they're making an extra 40 to 60 cents to the dollar. We can't do this to our kids anymore. — Patricia Arquette

Be kinder than necessary
because everyone you meet
is fighting some kind of battle — Sukhraj S. Dhillon

American women are evolving backward
becoming more focused on their looks than ever. Feminism has been defeated by narcissism. — Maureen Dowd

Train yourself by blessing those who treat you badly and you will take on the nature of God. — Sunday Adelaja

You have thoughts, but you are not your thoughts - and they definitely don't have to run the show. You — Baron Baptiste

I see no reason for recording the obvious. — Edward Weston

Do you deserve truth? You sure seek it, but do you deserve it? If you want to see real things burning you first have to reach up to the height of the fire. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Logan couldn't remember when a few drinks became a bottle and then two bottles every night. He couldn't point to one single moment or event as the cause. From his first drink at fourteen, alcohol began soaking into his skin, the moisture rotting him on the inside. Every few years he'd use a chisel to hack away all the wet, unsound wood without trying to find the source of the moisture. The rot always came back, stronger than before. — J.D. Ruskin

When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself. — Gary Zukav

A Rare Commodity A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor. PROVERBS 29:23 Humility isn't a show we put on; in fact, if we think we're humble, we're probably not. And in our day of self-promotion, self-assertion, spotlighting "celebrities of the faith," and magnifying the flesh, this quality - so greatly valued by the Lord Jesus - is a rare commodity indeed ... A truly humble person looks for opportunities to give himself freely to others rather than holding back, to release rather than hoarding, to build up rather than tearing down, to serve rather than being served, to learn from others rather than clamoring for the teaching stand. How blessed are those who learn this early in life. Hope Again — Charles R. Swindoll

You must be more convinced and dedicated to the integrity of the truth. — Sunday Adelaja

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has. — Alia Shawkat