Black Heart Inertia

Famous quotes containing the words black, heart and/or inertia:

    Quadroon mermaids, Afro angels, black saints
    balanced upon the switchblades of that air
    and sang.
    Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    Handsome husbands often make a wife’s heart ache.
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say “I know” instead of “I am learning,” and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for scepticism and activity.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)