#Being Thankful Quotes #Advice Quotes #Today Quotes
“When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.”
“Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.”
“The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.”
Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”
“Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.”
“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.”
“A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.”
“In Christ we become God's sons, man's servants and the devil's masters.”
“Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.”
Colleen Haskell Television producer
Ethan Zohn Soccer player
Jenna Boyd Film actress
Rob Mariano Television Personality
Aras Baskauskas TV Personality
