Yomarie Rodriguez Quotes & Sayings

What is most difficult to face, but increasingly obvious as gay visibility provokes containment, but not equality, is that homophobes enjoy feeling superior, rely on the pleasure of enacting their superiority, and go out of their way to resist change that would deflate their sense of supremacy. Homophobia makes heterosexuals feel better about themselves. It's not fear - it's fun.
We know from photographs of happy picnicking white families laughing underneath the swinging body of a tortured, lynched black man, or giggly white U.S. soldiers leading naked Iraqis on leashes, or terrified humiliated Jews surrounded by laughing smiling Nazis that human beings love being cruel. They enjoy the power, and go far beyond social expectation to carry out the kind of cruelty that makes them feel bigger. In short, homophobia is not a phobia at all. It is a pleasure system. — Sarah Schulman

He could think no longer; he leaned against his shadow. The silence within the slab of ancient stone eased through him; his thoughts, worn meaningless, became quiet again. — Patricia A. McKillip

I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way. — Arthur Lydiard

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed ... equally well. — Johann Sebastian Bach

Olympics is everyone's dream. — Gagan Narang

Mightier than the sword, the pen may be; but the tongue is mightiest of all. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default. — Alan Greenspan

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. — Harold Russell

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! — Anna Garlin Spencer

Alice: Is it because she's successful?
Dan: No. It's because... she doesn't need me. — Patrick Marber

Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return back again, and be content if the greater part of what thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and love this to which thou returnest — Marcus Aurelius

Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever — Dalai Lama