Woebegone Thanksgiving Quotes & Sayings

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess. — Jose Raul Capablanca

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable. — Martha Graham

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it. — Jonathan Franzen

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior! — W.E.B. Du Bois

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously. — William Odom

You are either creating consciously
or creating by egoic default. — Deborah Atianne Wilson

This was before I knew that we all live on this planet, driving in the cars of our own little minds, our own self-contained worlds. Yes, this was before I knew that, when I thought that I mattered, when I thought that people saw me, deep into me, saw all my love and excitement at being alive, saw the very glistening, running-overness of my aliveness. But we only matter when we do something awful. Then, someone sees us and only then. — Paula Bomer