"Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love."

-- Nancy Garden

#Ignorance Quotes #Winning Quotes #People Quotes

“There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.”
“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
“What do you do when you get out of the military, you stop serving? There are 26 presidents who served in the military. More than half of our presidents... that means that you stop being an American?”
“The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone.”

Source : Faraaz Kazi (2012). “Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!”, p.105, Faraaz Kazi
“Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.”
“It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.”
“Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.”

Source : Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.
“She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.107, Macmillan

You may also like:

Alex Sanchez
Author
Alison Bechdel
Cartoonist
Francesca Lia Block
Writer
Julie Anne Peters
Author
Leslea Newman
Author
Nicola Griffith
Author
Robert Cormier
Author
Sara Ryan
Writer
Sarah Schulman
Novelist