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Zora Neale Hurston8 quotes
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937Gods always behave like the people who make them. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1938Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937All 8 quotes →John Green2 quotes
If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. — John Green · 2005As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. — John Green · 2012Chuck Todd1 quote
Alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods. — Chuck Todd · 2017Donald Justice1 quote
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. — Donald Justice · 1967James Weldon Johnson1 quote
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic. — James Weldon Johnson · 1930John Archibald Wheeler1 quote
There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism and other fields are only manifestations of the curvature of space. — John Archibald Wheeler · 1960Rita Mae Brown1 quote
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. — Rita Mae Brown · 1983