Wherefore Clause Quotes & Sayings

Let your courage rise with danger. — Nelson Mandela

If there's a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own feelings of discomfort that arise when a person, of any color, expresses emotion not welcome in the culture of niceness. It also has to do with tolerating my own feelings of shame, humiliation, regret, anger, and fear so I can engage, not run. For me, tolerance is not about others, it's about accepting my own uncomfortable emotions as I adjust to a changing view of myself as imperfect and vulnerable. As human. — Debby Irving

Regret leads to overeating and naps. — Mason Cooley

I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help.'
'Why not?'
'My lady, you make your own luck. — Maria V. Snyder

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. — Langston Hughes

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. — Dick Gregory

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us. — Charles Stanley

Opportunities increase as they are taken. — Sun Tzu

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. — John Calvin

Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it. — Rebecca Solnit