Jesmyn Ward Quotes

Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.

Jesmyn Ward

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LifeIgnorancePainFightEffortMe

I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

Jennifer Grey

JobNobodyAlwaysNoseActress

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

John T. Flynn

WarSocietyRoadWillFirstFascism

My mother taught me my first bhajan. My mother, Shobha Nigam, was a very religious woman. From her only I learnt 'Om Jai Jagdish' song and used to do puja along with her.

Sonu Nigam

MotherWomanMeSongFirstHer

Sunday school don't make you cool forever.

Sly Stone

SchoolCoolYouSundayForeverMake

When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.

Simon Ammann

StrengthEnoughYouJumpOverYears

Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make creative leaps in our biology, in the diseases we can resist and the foods we can digest. And in our thinking and culture and politics, too.

Mohsin Hamid

TimeCulturePoliticsCreativeDone

When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.

Misty Copeland

StrengthMotherHomeChildhoodMe

It's not so much that I'd like to play a raunchy character, but I would like to play someone my own age. I'm always playing down, but I guess it's good because it means I've got a longer life in my acting career.

Julia Sawalha

LifeGoodAgeCharacterSomeone

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Jawaharlal Nehru

LeaderManActionCrisisAlwaysHis

I just like music. If it's hookey and good, I dig it.

Chris Daughtry

GoodMusicDigJustLike

I don't just write letters. I write laws.

Chris Smith

LettersWriteLawsJustI Write

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

Antonio Villaraigosa

PeopleFaceYouPartyVoteOut

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