
“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Source: Inferno
“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
2010-07-12
00:25:43
Beck: African-Americans "don't own Martin Luther King"
2010-07-12
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201007120051
2010s, 2010
“Nothing’s a mistake until you make it.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.”
Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia
An unnamed goddess
The Queen of Attolia (2000)
“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) American missionary
Glorify his name!, The Root of the Righteous, Ch. 39.
“To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.”
Henry Fielding book Joseph Andrews
Book II, Ch. 8
Joseph Andrews (1742)
“Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”
Sojourner Truth (1797–1883) African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
Ain't I a Woman? Speech (1851)
Context: That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Jesus Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
"As Much Truth As One Can Bear" in The New York Times Book Review (14 January 1962); republished in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (2011), edited by Randall Kenan<!-- , also quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 114 -->
Context: Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.