"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party."

-- Ida B. Wells

#Party Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 282), 1895.
“It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.”
“Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?”
“New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.”
“Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.”
“Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.”
“for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

Source : Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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