Wordcraft Wendy Quotes & Sayings

Confusion. Twentysomethings like Ian were raised — Meg Jay

You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance - no matter how improved - as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children. Our triumphs can never compensate for this. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Listen, whatever you decide to do will be the right thing," Lauren said. "How do you know?" "Because if it wasn't the right thing, then you wouldn't choose to do it." "That doesn't make any sense," Isabella said. "Or does it make perfect sense?" Lauren asked. — Anonymous

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing. — Gael Garcia Bernal

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world — Aiden Wilson Tozer

This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she could be anybody, anywhere, doing anything. I liked that she was our invention, a woman living on the last page of the story with only what we imagined spread out before her. I liked that she was ours, alone. — Jandy Nelson

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. — Will Smith

Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders. — Brian Selznick

When you're going through a tough spell, it's easy to think that's all your life is about. You forget the good things, forget the quiet places. But they're always inside of us and we can pull them up when we need to set ourselves right. — Joan Bauer

Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered. — Stacy Schiff

He had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among the dead was not necessarily bad for you, that it could in fact be a source of great comfort and happiness. — Paul Auster

I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of the experts, believe that the goal is impossible. — Burt Rutan

I'm particularly impressed by the creation of the character of Spock, which really was Leonard Nimoy's singular creation. He used everything he had. — George Takei

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur. — Bernard Arnault

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane. — Mike Rowe