Tenners Urban Quotes & Sayings

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees. — Rajneesh

Then Ben's mouth descended again and her thoughts, as fickle as tiny fish, swam out of her head. Gentle brushes of his lips turned into more insistent strokes of his mouth. Sexually frustrated widow or not, there was little doubt the man could kiss her into a melted puddle of goo. — Tracey Alvarez

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise. — Michael Jordan

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to. — Anton Chekhov

I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers. — Demian Bichir

With Cassia on the Hill - only then was I truly myself. — Ally Condie

From day one she was running, running, running.
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She was always running toward. — Jandy Nelson

Conclusion: I don't need the water reclaimer at all. I'll drink as needed and dump my waste outdoors. Yeah, that's right, Mars, I'm gonna piss and shit on you. That's what you get for trying to kill me all the time. — Andy Weir

Children laugh for no reason at all. They laugh because they're alive and they're in your arms. It's senseless, but this senseless moment pounds against my heart more than a sound fact. — Krista Ritchie

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When our elders presented school to use, they did not present it as a place of high learning but as a means of escape from death and personal warehousing. Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail. This should disgrace the country. But it does not, and while I couldn't crunch the numbers or plumb the history back then, I sensed that the fear marked West Baltimore could not be explained by the schools. Schools did not reveal truths, they concealed them. Perhaps they must be burned away so that the heart of this thing might be known. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I've been told I'm a glass half-empty sort of person. — Maria Malonzo