Ziesemer Landscape Quotes & Sayings

Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It's always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it's always something pure, high and clean. Well I want to get the language right tonight. I want to get the language so right that everyone here will cry out: 'Yes, I'm Black, I'm proud of it. I'm Black and I'm beautiful!' — Martin Luther King Jr.

You might even be punished for performance that by any reasonable measure is truly excellent. — Steven Cohen

Make taking care of yourself your top priority every single day, day after day and you will see that all the other people and chores fall into proper place. — Toni Sorenson

The regimes will fall because of something no one will see coming: when people stop using the imported language of others and discover their own. — Fadi Azzam

May the might be in the light, the beyond of east or west.
As the faith lies within a broken bayonet, an ending put best. — Rosca Marx

Confirmation strengthens us to defend the faith and to spread the Gospel courageously — Pope Francis

Admire the world for never ending on you
as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away. — Annie Dillard

When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.' — Orlando Bloom

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me. — Betty Who

In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language." What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant! — Stephen Hawking

In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalisation. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable. — Jeanette Winterson

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it. — Mignon McLaughlin