Carrie > Carrie's Quotes

“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
― James Baldwin

“When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor, that seems to be the wave of the future.”
― Christoper Hitchens 1989

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim’s logo.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“When we seek revenge, even non-violent revenge, we are revolving, not evolving.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice