It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
W. E. B. Du Bois

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.
Thomas Friedman

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Ellen DeGeneres

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
Will Ferrell

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
Robert Byrne

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Germaine Greer

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
Harriet Tubman

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
Harriet Tubman

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Woodrow Wilson

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
Gerald Jampolsky

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
Gerald Jampolsky

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Rose Kennedy

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor

Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.
Charles Manson

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James