Unaccusatory Quotes & Sayings

My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now. I didn't recognize the poetry in everyday language of black America. I thought I had to change it to create art. — August Wilson

Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet? — C.J. Milbrandt

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School. — Edmund Hillary

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice. — Simone De Beauvoir

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine. — Benjamin Graham

The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change. — Michael Bloomberg

Today I saw my inner planet: a cracked rib, air in the lungs, fatty liver and an open heart. — Jaime Garcia

It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible ... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well. — Brian D. McLaren

Christmas time - an Enlightened Teacher came into the world, taught, and died. His message was simple: Forgive. While the human beings of this planet have still not absorbed this simple Truth, it remains the Truth. — Frederick Lenz

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. — George Washington

I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently — Janusz Korczak

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing. — Natalie Babbitt