"Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step."

-- Sharon Olds

#Thinking Quotes #Quality Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.”

Source : Sir John Davies (1759). “The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul: A Poem”, p.59
“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”

Source : Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press
“We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?”
“Did folks know that the tax to fund the program [Social Security] only hits salaries up to $110,000? That means that if you make a million bucks, about 90% of your salary is tax free when it comes to the payroll tax that funds Soc Sec. That ain't right.”
“Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.”
“Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.”

Source : "Questions surround WMD hunt" by David Ensor, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2003.
“The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.
“If young children boo me, that makes my day.”

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