Unfreedom Snyder Quotes & Sayings

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. — Horace

You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance - no matter how improved - as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children. Our triumphs can never compensate for this. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. — Phil Collins

23The LORD makes firm the stepsq of the one who delightsr in him; 24though he may stumble, he will not fall,s for the LORD upholdst him with his hand. — Anonymous

Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT — Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe in the power of imagination. I believe in the unexplained possibilities of the spirit. And I believe that the heart, like any other muscle, grows stiff if it is not exercised regularly.

I believe. — Eve Zibart

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really. — Adrian Lyne

Yeah. Unless of course you're scared to be alone with me, he challenged. Please. I was more afraid I might assault him — J.L. Weil

Yes, I think it's helping. Ugh. You had better pray for a boy, Westcliff, because this is your only chance at an heir. I'm never going through this again - " "Open your mouth," he said, and fed her more flavored ice. — Lisa Kleypas

Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus? Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe. He can take his'n and beat your'n, then he can take your'n and beat his'n. — Bum Phillips

I'd love to give you something
but what would help? — Ikkyu