“What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 147 of 313
“What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.”
“I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.”
“A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.”
“Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.”
“The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.”
“We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.”
“There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us.”
“When you say yes to life, you attract divine guidance. When you're inspired, you're collaborating with fate. Everything starts working for you.”
“History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.”
“There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history - you have to believe that something different can happen.”
“Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
“Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk”
“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”
“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.”
“History is a bath of blood.”
“Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.”
“What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.”
“Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.”
“For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.”