"White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge."

-- Katherine Losse

#Wall Quotes #Reading Quotes #White Quotes

“The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.”
“It is for the State to take care that the economic conditions are such that the normal man who is not defective in mind or body or will can be useful labor feed, house, and clothe himself and his family. The "right to work" and the "right to a living wage" are just as valid as the rights of person or property.”
“And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho: Horror and Romance”, p.80, 谷月社
“The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look through that registry and look at all the names of all the people who were registered to be living in the house. And they would, you know, cross-reference that with the actual inhabitants of the dwelling.I was never on that piece of paper. I was always hidden. My grandmother would hide me somewhere if the police did show up. And it was a constant game of hide and seek.”
“Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.”
“I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'”
“I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.”

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