Tuskegee Airmen Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's interests, and you represent his interests to the press. And the press is a proxy for the American people. — Dee Dee Myers

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it. — Sam Harris

My aching heart was soothed; I let myself be borne upon the current of this gentle night ... — Marcel Proust

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. — Jonathan Safran Foer

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another. — Veronica Roth

I am fearful of romantic dinners,
huge crowds, dusk -
of normal things-
afraid to be loved,
the one thing I want most.
Maybe it's because I don't think I deserve it
because I am not that perfect
little girl that I was supposed to be,
well manicured and well groomed,
because I have nervous breakdowns,
and take pills,
and keep moving on. — Samantha Schutz

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. — Francis Bacon

I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from, they ask. Does it matter, I answer.
But it does. Because how can you truly know yourself, and how can you know other place and people, if you don't even know where you come from? — Kapka Kassabova

I do believe that we stand at a threshold, as Bonhoeffer did, and that the example of his life obliges me to speak about the gravity of our historical moment as I see it, in the knowledge that no society is at any time immune to moral catastrophe. — Marilynne Robinson

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread. — Martin Rees

Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life. — Rahm Emanuel

I must not seek approval from absolutely everyone, or anyone really. — Lauren Graham

Obama recently warned some college graduates against being all worried about government tyranny, and Obama has good reason to warn you against that because worrying about government tyranny is the exact sort of thing that will get you audited. Or, when Obamacare is in full force, it will be the attitude that gets you denied life saving health care. So have faith in government. Or it will get you. — Frank J. Fleming

I do think that there's a special connection between Australia and America. It's kind of unexplainable. It's just one of those things. It's all about God's timing. We're thankful to be a part of it. — Reuben Morgan

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better. — David Byrne