Verseman Quotes & Sayings

The irony is that these efforts to go beyond the original intent of the Voting Rights Act in the name of helping blacks politically have almost certainly hampered blacks politically by limiting their appeal to nonblack voters. By creating "safe" black districts, racial gerrymandering has facilitated racial polarization and hyperpartisanship. — Jason L. Riley

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. — Hilarie Burton

Let them write angry letters to the Government-
they haven't been loved enough, there has been some crime — Joyce Carol Oates

We are beginning to learn that an empathic moment requires both intimate engagement and a measure of detachment. If our feelings completely spill over into another's feelings or their feelings overwhelm our psyche, we lose a sense of self and the ability to imagine the other as if they were us. Empathy is a difficult balancing act. One has to be open to experiencing another's plight as if it were one's own but not be engulfed by it, at the expense of drowning out the self's ability to be a unique and separate being. Empathy requires a porous boundary between I and thou that allows the identity of two beings to mingle in a shared mental space.
- The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis — Jeremy Rifkin

There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful. — Henry Rollins

Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well - that the individual condition of each is tragic. Each of us is alone: sometimes we escape from solitariness, through love or affection or perhaps creative moments, but those triumphs of life are pools of light we make for ourselves while the edge of the road is black: each of us dies alone. — C.P. Snow

That is the good stuff that comes into our life and it's based on the good stuff that goes out of our life! — Bob Proctor

I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things. — Chris Hardwick

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. — Beatrix Potter

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved — Vincent Van Gogh