Vertamae Smart Grosvenor Quotes & Sayings

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records. — Vanilla Ice

The Spirit's fullness is not the reward of our faithfulness, but God's gift for our defeat. He was not given to the disciples in Acts 28 as the culmination and reward of their wonderful service, but in Acts 2 when they had proved themselves cowards, meeting behind closed doors. — Roy Hession

Television is the triumph of machine over people. — Fred Allen

In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.' — Rebecca Solnit

Teach and you'll form a bond you just don't get from traditional marketing tactics. Buying people's attention with a magazine or online banner ad is one thing. Earning their loyalty by teaching them forms a whole different connection. They'll trust you more. They'll respect you more. Even if they don't use your product, they can still be your fans. — Jason Fried

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality. — G.K. Chesterton

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? — Thomas Jefferson

Let me introduce you to Jesus. — David Platt

Boyfriend?"
Her cheeks heated. "Yes."
"Funny name."
"What?" She frowned. "Ernest is a perfectly nice name."
"Oh, I thought I heard you call him Ermine. — Nalini Singh

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things. — Homer

If love is love, it's free. — Saul Bellow

Right-wing influence on sex education has played an equal, if not greater role. Federally mandated abstinence-only programs, which began in the early 1980s, not only reinforced that intercourse was the line in the sand of chastity, but also, using the threat of AIDS as justification, hammered home the idea that it might well kill you. Oral sex, then, was the obvious work-around. I doubt, though, that social conservatives would consider it a victory that, across a range of studies, college students who identify as religious are even more likely than others to say oral sex is not "sex," or that over a third of teenagers included it in their definition of "abstinence" (nearly a quarter included anal sex), or that roughly 70 percent agreed that someone who engages in oral sex is still a virgin. — Peggy Orenstein

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring. — Julia Glass