#ring

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#been #black #complicated #does #ennoble

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#giving #great #great joy #important #joy

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#back #ceremony #church #during #favor

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#bring #cheese #country #different #different kinds

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#brilliant #clothes #eternal #life #like

I'm a very boring person. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #person #very

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up? ↗

— Bob Geldof

#children #having #having children #part #point

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court. ↗

— Uri Geller

#caring #court #end #i #libel

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#car #complaining #done #feel #find

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. ↗

— Rex Stout

#ball #ball game #ballplayers #detective #detective stories