Uncultured Person Quotes & Sayings

The poets and writers are trying to understand the reality of woman, but up to this day they have not understand the hidden secret of her heart because they look upon her from behind the sexual veil and see nothing but the externals: they look upon her from magnifying glass of hatefulness and find nothing except weakness and submission. — Kahlil Gibran

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next. — Lillian B. Rubin

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away. — Ellis Peters

It is important to stress that, in America at least, no matter how small and how badly off a particular stigmatized category is, the viewpoint of its members is likely to be given public presentation of some kind. It can thus be said that Americans who are stigmatized tend to live in a literarily-defined world, however uncultured they might be. If they don't read books on the situation of persons like themselves, they at least read magazines and see movies; and where they don't do these, then they listen to local, vocal associates. An intellectually worked-up version of their point of view is thus available to most stigmatized persons. A comment is here required about those who come to serve as representatives of a stigmatized category. Starting out as someone who is a little more vocal, a little better known, or a little better connected than his fellow-sufferers, a stigmatized person may find that the "movement" has absorbed his whole day, and that he has become a professional. — Erving Goffman

He burst from the water. He was facing her now. The muscles bunched on his arms as he slicked his wet, shoulder-length hair back from his face. The mist swirled amber over the surface of the water, adorning his gleaming skin as if he were the tributary god of this ruined garden. Her pity evaporated, burned away by the sudden realization that she had it all wrong. He was ... She swallowed. Good Lord. He was magnificent. — Elizabeth Hoyt

More is happening out there than we are aware of.
It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance. — Edward Gorey

Hope is a happy spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league. — Kevin Durant

Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality. — Brian Tracy

Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list. — Bill Hybels