Alice Dearing Quotes
A lot of black people think they never learned how to swim and turned out fine so they don’t need to teach their children. Obviously there are a lot of flaws with that argument, but if that’s being repeated to a whole generation – that swimming is not for you – then obviously it’s going to trickle down.
Alice Dearing
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Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.
Brown Campbell
Unless you find paradise at your own center, there is not the smallest chance That you may enter
Angelus Silesius
In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the face and lips and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smiled and kept moving.
Neil Gaiman
Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
Kirk Douglas
In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.
Charles Bass
As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.
Claire Tomalin
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
Lydia Davis
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.
Marilynne Robinson
Those are the moments athletes live for - we live for those exhilarating, breathless, take-your-breath-away, you're-on-the-seat-of-your-chair moments.
Adam Rippon
The incorrect supposition that we live in a world of scarce resources has done more than preclude most individuals from achieving economic success. Over the centuries, this zero-sum-game view of the world has been responsible for wars, revolutions, political strategies, and human suffering of unfathomable proportions.
Paul Zane Pilzer
When I took office, Liberia began to recover from years of neglect. Our people have brought clean water into the heart of Monrovia to children who have never known water from a tap. Efforts are underway to expand water projects as much as possible throughout the country.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
A lot of black people think they never learned how to swim and turned out fine so they don’t need to teach their children. Obviously there are a lot of flaws with that argument, but if that’s being repeated to a whole generation – that swimming is not for you – then obviously it’s going to trickle down.
Alice Dearing
