In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
#quotes #charles-lamb #black

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
#quotes #thomas-e-sniegoski #silence

My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
#quotes #al-franken #george-jessel #henny-youngman #comedy

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
#quotes #anne-lamott #suffering #books

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
#quotes #georg-c-lichtenberg #freedom #free-will

Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
#quotes #marquise-de-sevigne #marie-de-rabutin-chantal #feelings

It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
#quotes #robert-scheer #war

Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #fortune

This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them. ~Mario Lemieux
#quotes #mario-lemieux #fun

Better late than never. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #time

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
#quotes #bill-harley #stories

People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
#quotes #dash-mihok #tourette-s #control

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
#quotes #georges-cuvier

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
#quotes #friedrich-nietzsche #wisdom #philosophy #human

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
#quotes #ouida #family #hardship

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
#quotes #laurel-clark #parents #influence #thankfulness

The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
#quotes #langston-hughes #optimism

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
#quotes #andrea-corr #family #understanding #communication

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
#quotes #karl-lagerfeld

A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
#proverbs #indian-proverbs #power #cats

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
#quotes #sigmund-freud #civilization #instincts

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#quotes #johann-wolfgang-von-goethe #work

I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
#quotes #victoria-beckham

Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
#quotes #elizabeth-edwards #family #children #parenting

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
#quotes #imelda-marcos #nobility #humanity