Quotes of: Race-prejudice Keyword

And even those who claim to read the Bible literally and to lead their lives according to its precepts are, in actual practice, highly selective about which parts of the Bible they live by and which they don't. Jesus' condemnations of wealth and war ...

Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity

I'm far from the world and I see it like a brightly lit ball in the distance. The sky behind it is mostly gray. It starts in silence, but I can see the people. Everyone is in a hurry. They're racing around the globe. They each hold a thread, like a b...

Uses for Boys

[first lines] Narrator: At exactly 3:45 on that Saturday afternoon in the last week of September, Marvin Unger was, perhaps, the only one among the hundred thousand people at the track who felt no thrill at the running of the fifth race. He was total...

The Killing

If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a prejudicism of low expectations.

Andrew Forrest

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

George R. R. Martin

Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.

Virginia Postrel

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

Henry Tumour

I know too well how good-bye can steal more than just the future.

Spies and Prejudice

Devil has to offer many diabolical grimaces: One of these caricatures is prejudice, it stirs up hatred.

The Seven Deadly Sins

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

Prom and Prejudice

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

Pride and Prejudice

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Pride and Prejudice

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Pride and Prejudice

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

Pride and Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date.

Prom and Prejudice

Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.

Pies & Prejudice

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Pride and Prejudice

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

Pride and Prejudice

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

Pride and Prejudice

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.

Pride and Prejudice