Uc San Diego Quotes & Sayings

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered. — Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Rachel's face was still looking at Mathilde from the dark when she went back upstairs. The marital suite, the bed obscene in its empty enormity. In her absence, the sheets had been changed. When she climbed in again, they were cool and smelled like lavender and brushed her skin like accusations. — Lauren Groff

The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom. — Joel C. Rosenberg

I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff. — Ziad Doueiri

The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves ... — Robert Wyland

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities ... and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life ... — Virginia Woolf

Our thoughts gives our dreams direction. — Ralph Ramovha

Austen knew nothing of our modern quest for equality. People are not numbers, and so they are never "equal." Some folk are higher placed than others, have more money, were more fortunate in their parents, or are brighter. These gifts do not come to us by merit but by the unfathomable providence of God. — John Mark Reynolds

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else. — Babatunde Adebimpe

Difficult but possible is the key. That's because more difficult goals cause you to, often unconsciously, increase your effort, focus, and commitment to the goal; persist longer; and make better use of the most effective strategies. — Heidi Grant Halvorson

To the extent that the short story is an art, Sturgeon is the American short-story writer. — Samuel R. Delany

Jean Louise had a sinking feeling. The Hundred Years' War had progressed to approximately its twenty-sixth year with no indications of anything more than periods of uneasy truce. — Harper Lee

Everyone has stories of the small coincidence by which their parents met or their grandmother was saved from fire or their grandfather from the grenade, of the choice made by the most whimsical means that led to everything else, whether you're blessed or cursed or both. Trace it back far enough and this very moment in your life becomes a rare species, the result of a strange evolution, a butterfly that should already be extinct and survives by the inexplicabilities we call coincidence. The word is often used to mean the accidental but literally means to fall together. The patterns of our lives come from those things that do not drift apart but move together for a little while, like dancers. — Rebecca Solnit