Josephine Baker Quotes
Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.
Josephine Baker
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Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
Quentin Crisp
It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.
H. P. Lovecraft
One may well use one’s head even though one is in love. Someone has said that one cannot prevent lightening from striking – but one may prevent the whole town from burning down.
Margrethe II of Denmark
'The bread of the stranger is bitter,' says Dante, 'and his staircase hard to climb.' But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?
Alexander Pushkin
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
Ludwig van Beethoven
In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.
Margaret Thatcher
I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
Christopher Meloni
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
John Milton
I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.
Kiefer Sutherland
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.
Ban Ki-moon
There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.
Josephine Baker
