I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
Bell Hooks

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Toni Morrison

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.
Margaret J. Wheatley

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.
Margaret J. Wheatley

For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
Margaret J. Wheatley

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
Julia Margaret Cameron

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai E. Stevenson

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.
Philip Johnson

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Billy Connolly

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
Lady Bird Johnson

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.
Drew Carey

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.
Ani DiFranco

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
William S. Burroughs

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
Stella Adler

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
Bill Hicks

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
Bill Hicks

Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?
John Hughes

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.
Ani DiFranco