Despair – or as I like to call it, des-pair – means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like everyone else is paired with a good job, a happy marriage, loving family, caring, and hope – and you’re not. Mark Goulston Read Quote
I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world. Fred Hampton Read Quote
I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it’s well-founded. Mike D Read Quote
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first. Randall Kennedy Read Quote
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. Mahatma Gandhi Read Quote
My mum and dad both worked full-time jobs to send my sister and I to public school, and to allow us to play the sports we wanted. Michael Clarke Read Quote
Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem. Sachin Tendulkar Read Quote
We are a country of Newton, Hodgson, and Turing. Ours is a country of ideas, invention and discovery and is truly a national history. Rishi Sunak Read Quote
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Read Quote
Sometimes people ask me, ‘You do stand-up?’ I try explaining what I do, and I don’t think they really get it. So: ‘Yeah, I do stand-up.’ I wish there was one word to express what I do – that way, I don’t sound arrogant. Whenever I say I’m a performer, people think I’m a performance artist: ‘She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.’ Charlyne Yi Read Quote
