Does Quotes
- Page 36It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
Alice Walker
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
Michelle Obama
If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
Lukas Foss
If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.
Eric Liu
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
Benjamin E. Mays
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
Dennis Rodman
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
Is it demonstratable? Does it have that wow factor? Is it easy to use? Is it priced right?
Billy Mays
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Taylor Caldwell
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
E. W. Howe
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Billy Sunday
The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.
Ron Wyden
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Clint Eastwood