Web Du Bois Quotes & Sayings

For a girl who hated looking at herself, I was at risk of becoming vain. — Leigh Bardugo

I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself. — Joan Kirner

I'm not saying it will always be easy because we are human. Two people in love will always have uphill battles but it's how you handle those challenges that truly matter. — Kathryn Perez

We want to not only show respect to our people, in the same way, we want to show respect to everyone we meet in life, we also want to respect their humanity, what it is that makes us human, which is our ability to think and feel - we have to respect that humanity in the way we design the work, so that the work enables their very human characteristics to flourish. — Michael Bremer

I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes. — Neil Gaiman

I shirk not. I long for work. I pant for a life full of striving. I am no coward, to shrink before the rugged rush of the storm, nor even quail before the awful shadow of the Veil. But hearken, O Death! Is not this my life hard enough, - is not that dull land that stretches its sneering web about me cold enough, - is not all the world beyond these four little walls pitiless enough, but that thou must needs enter here, - thou, O Death? — W.E.B. Du Bois

The longer it takes me to track you down, the more hope you have of escaping. — Peter Watts

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal! — Thomas A. Edison

I'd like respect, but failing that, a little healthy fear can go a long way to making things run smoothly. — Patrick Rothfuss

Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places. — Dhani Jones

You will walk the circumference of the entire globe and find yourself right where you started. Here, he said, taking her into his arms. — Tiffany Reisz

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. — Maya Angelou

Everyday take one optimistic calculated risk to find out how far you can go. — Debasish Mridha