"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."

-- Freya Stark

#Race Quotes #Circles Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.”
“Being humbled is always good for us, even if it doesn't feel good to us.”
“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.”
“So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention... This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed.”
“If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'”
“I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes.”
“What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.”
“A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.”

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