Taxisnet Gr Quotes & Sayings

I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge in hip-hop. I'm hoping that young people immersed in the culture will work harder to capitalize on the possibilities for great social change that hip-hop represents as a national unified cultural youth movement. — Bakari Kitwana

He who is not angry at transgression becomes a partaker in it. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose. — Sandra Bernhard

When anger rears up in me I have a trick I do where I picture it as a freshly uncoiled snake dropping down from the jungle canopy and heading for my neck. If I look at it directly it'll disappear, but I have to do it while the snake's still dropping or it will strike. This sounds like something they'd teach you in therapy at the hospital or something, but it's not. It's just a trick I found somewhere by myself. Once you've looked at a deadly thing and seen it disappear, what more is there to do? Walk on through the empty jungle toward the city past the clearing. — John Darnielle

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed. — Abraham Lincoln

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar. — Walter Scott

Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you. — Jessie Mueller

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help. — Langston Hughes

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes. — James Fenimore Cooper

update that brought a huge smile to her face. "Rodrick!" she called out from her bed. He didn't answer. "Rodrick! Come here! Look at this!" He still didn't respond, so — Jordan Belcher

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is, to my mind, the greatest American animated series ever produced. The characters lived and breathed. — Gene Luen Yang

When the enemies of Spire Albion were in the walls, the great-great granddaughter of old Admiral Tagwynn had refused to have a good lie-down, and it was as simple and as profound as that. — Jim Butcher

Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar. — Terry Tempest Williams