Xavier Naidoo Quotes & Sayings

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hierarchies must rise and conglomerate as they extend over fewer and larger corporations. A seat in a high-rise job is the most coveted and contested product of expanding industry. The lack of schooling, compounded with sex, color, and peculiar persuasions, now keeps most people down. Minorities organized by women, or blacks, or the unorthodox succeed at best in getting some of their members through school and into an expensive job. They claim victory when they get equal pay for equal rank. Paradoxically, these movements strengthen the idea that unequal graded work is necessary and that high-rise hierarchies are necessary to produce what an egalitarian society needs. If properly schooled, the black porter will blame himself for not being a black lawyer. At the same time, schooling generates a new intensity of frustration which ultimately can act as social dynamite. 6 — Ivan Illich

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints. — Rick Majerus

...our hostess backed out of the room, grinning vapidly. She had long since forgotten the meaning of a smile, but the physical ability to make the gesture remained. I felt that the grin...would shatter if it were touched and fall to the floor in pieces. — Beryl Markham

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary. — Emil Cioran

The audience is never wrong. — Carol Burnett

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it. — John Lewis

You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go — Confucius

I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania. — Lord Byron

When a man is driving in a car and looks out the window and notices a woman with a great body, as he strains to check her face out, how does she know to keep turning so the back of her head is always toward him? — Woody Allen

We are designed for Giving — Marshall B. Rosenberg

The Economic Problem ... the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle. — John Maynard Keynes

The land's like a woman. Tame her gently, treat her good, and you'll never be without her. Strip her bare, and she'll be colder than a whore's heart. — Bonnie K. Winn