"to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal."

-- Patricia J. Williams

#Black Quotes #Female Quotes #Lawyer Quotes

“With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.”

Source : Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.372, Penguin
“I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'”

Source : Ricardo Daza, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (2000). “Looking for Mies”, Birkhauser
“Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

Source : Carl Little, Edward Hopper (1993). “Edward Hopper's New England”, p.8, Pomegranate
“The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.”

Source : Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7
“Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.”
“Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.”
“The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.”

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