"She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation."

-- Jean Webster

#Sarcastic Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Flow Quotes

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
“It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated yesterday could be attempted again tomorrow, could overwhelm us and our children. One is tempted to turn away with a grimace and close one's mind: this is a temptation one must resist. In fact, the existence of the death squads had a meaning, a message: 'We, the master race, are your destroyers, but you are no better than we are; if we so wish, and we do so wish, we can destroy not only your bodies, but also your souls, just as we have destroyed ours.”
“We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.”
“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.”
“You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that there is a limit to what that accomplishes.”
“There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.”
“Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.”

Source : Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”
“They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.”

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