“All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.” WhiteExistenceTakenDressesWingsAway From You Author:Czeslaw Milosz
“There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.” LongHas BeensEvilHouseFearDifficultBlackWhiteTakenDoubtTaughtNeighborGrantedWitchProvokingYardsValidityTaken For GrantedUnchangingStampede Author:Edward R. Murrow
“in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.” KindCultureSocialWhiteClassTakenGroupsMiddleMiddle ClassMainstreamNormSocial NormsBlandDeviation Book:FEAR OF FALLING Source: FEAR OF FALLING
“I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.” KnowsFeelsMindLooksPersonsSaidStatesNightFatherWhiteTakenMiddleGrewGrew UpSouthTerrorismUsaSegregationMiddle Of The NightObeyingFrame Of Mind Author:Alice Walker
“On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.” ThinkingWellsChildrenStatesWholeFactsHousePresidentJusticeWhiteUnitedUnited StatesTakenBearsCriticismAccountsTrialsChiefsMy ChildrenConsiderationWhite HouseTemperamentChief Justice Author:William Howard Taft
“I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.” YearsHouseEnergyLeftWhiteTakenCarSixHundredComplexesGasWhite HouseEfficiencyEmissionsGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesEnergy Efficiency Author:William J. Clinton
“All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.” WorldBelieveI BelieveStarsWhiteExistenceTakenDressesWingsHeavyBeastFabricTrustworthyMessengersAway From You Author:Czeslaw Milosz
“Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don't know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: "The flag is red, white, and blue." So what do you think of it? Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsHas BeensMightWhiteCasesTakenDangerousExampleDrinkRedBlueEmbraceFlagsTowersExclusiveYellingOxfordIvoryIvory TowerRed White And Blue Author:Lynne Truss
“All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.” WayGivingDifferentRealFeelingsRealityFacesUsedGirlBlackWhiteEmotionTalkingTakenColorHairPersonalityModelsRedAddPopsDramaticPrincessCartoonExtensionsNot TalkingFuturisticSyntheticDifferent ColorsFakenessReal HairRed And Black Author:Guido Palau
“George W. Bush's approval ratings have plummeted as Americans realize that it's not gay marriage that's destroying the country, but rather the president, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and the rest of the gang in the White House. They're the ones who've taken us to war based on lies and have irreparably damaged the nation's integrity.” WarCountryLyingHouseNationsPresidentRealizingWhiteTakenIntegrityGayWhite HouseDestroyingApprovalGangGay MarriageRiceRatingApproval Rating Author:Michelangelo Signorile
“The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think every word is literally true. So it's had to appeal to that - and to the nativist population, the people that are frightened, have always been... It's a very frightened country and that's increasing now with the recognition that the white population is going to be a minority pretty soon, "they've taken our country from us."” PeopleThinkingCountryWhiteHalfTakenWrittenPercentPopulationOur CountryRecognitionAppealsMinoritiesFrightenedEighty Author:Noam Chomsky