Trials U0026 Tribulations Quotes & Sayings

She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin ... But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon. — Charles J. Shields

There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office. — Stetson Kennedy

That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it? — Katherine Mansfield

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. — Richard Leakey

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no. — Dick Gregory

We are slaves, all of us ... Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason - or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves ... and the question must be to what shall we owe our indenture? Will it be to truth or to falsehood, hope or despair, light or darkness? I choose to serve the light, even though that bondage often lies in darkness. — Rick Yancey

Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority of the world's population. Already there are many who prefer this crowded life, but there are others who do not, and these will gradually be eliminated. Life in the crowded conditions of cities has many unattractive features, but in the long run these may be overcome, not so much by altering them, but simply by changing the human race into liking them. — Charles Galton Darwin

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq. — Eric Shinseki