"There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms."

-- Ida B. Wells

#Lynching Quotes #Arms Quotes

“There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.”
“I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!”
“I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis”
“Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.”

Source : Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.21, Random House
“[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.”
“One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.”

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