Samuel R. Delany (Samuel Ray Delany Jr.) Quotes

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

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• If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • God
  • Blessings

• I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Myself
  • Really
  • Consider

• It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Important
  • Dream
  • Old

• If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Done
  • California
  • Anywhere

• Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • Beat
  • Noble
  • Ideals

• Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Money

• Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Politics
  • Easy
  • Gossip

• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Freedom
  • Action
  • Forgiveness

• I made the decision to end business relationships with the Trump Organization simply because it was the right thing to do. No one approached me, asked me or pressured me to take this action.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Business
  • Action
  • Decision

• I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I'd become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it, I was like, 'Whoa, these are great bands! I can do it, too.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Great
  • Music
  • Kids

• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Mind
  • Sorrow
  • Sympathy

• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Story
  • Inside
  • Agony

• I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Stills
  • Village
  • Mets

• The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Talking

• One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Kissing

• We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.

  

  Hafsat Abiola
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Black History

• Honestly, I do not even know whether this is on the visit itinerary, but if there is time, I would be pleased to go to Kodokan. For anyone interested in judo, who loves judo, Kodokan is a special place.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Special
  • Honestly
  • Judo

• And I'm amazed at how many guys hit on you when you're brunette. I've had a few occasions where I've found a stray hand on my knee, which never happened when I was an icy blonde. Blokes obviously get drunk and think: 'I might as well try it on a brunette - she'll probably be grateful.'

  

  Alice Evans
  • Hit
  • Occasions
  • Brunette

• Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Sweet

• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  

  Witter Bynner
  • People
  • Leader
  • Exists

• That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Come

• It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Inside
  • Come

• Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

  

  Samuel R. Delany
  • Come
  • Ashes
  • Apocalypse