Rayshell Austin Quotes

The world is changing at such a rapid rate that it's turning us all into amateurs. Even for professionals, the best way to flourish is to retain an amateur's spirit and embrace uncertainty and the unknown. ~ Austin Kleon

I was thirty-five and I'd thought I was playing political poker and it turned out I'd been playing in some other game I didn't even know about. Like I'd been holding a hand of kings and then the people around the table started putting down more kings, a king with a squid's face, a naked king with goat's horns holding up a bough of holly. A Russian king with an insect's voice. ~ Austin Grossman

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world. ~ Austin Kleon

He couldn't fuck Duke and close his eyes, pretending it was Austin. It was cheating, even though they weren't actually a couple, but he was surely cheating himself and he'd never disrespect Duke like that. "It's ~ A.E. Via

I lean on a lot of drivers. I have a dirt racing background so I gravitate towards asking for advice from drivers who also dirt race, people like Clint Bowyer since dirt racers seem to have a similar driving style and like the car set up similarly. ~ Austin Dillon

What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. ~ Austin Kleon

I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music! ~ Austin Butler

I will thank Him for all that He has given me, not curse Him for all that I've lost. ~ Lynn Austin

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. ~ Mary Hunter Austin

The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else. ~ Brian Austin Green

In their book Radical Reconciliation, Curtiss DeYoung and Allan Boesak unpack why this happens. They write, "reconciliation is revolutionary, that is, oriented to structural change." Which means, reconciliation can never be apolitical. Reconciliation chooses sides, and the side is always justice.

This is why white American churches remain so far from experiencing anything resembling reconciliation. The white Church considers power its birthright rather than its curse. And so, rather than seeking reconciliation, they stage moments of racial harmony that don't challenge the status quo. They organize worship services where the choirs of two racially different churches sing together, where a pastor of a different race preaches a couple of times a year, where they celebrate MLK but don't acknowledge current racial injustices. Acts like these can create beautiful moments of harmony and goodwill, but since they don't change the underlying power structure at the organization, it would be misleading to call them acts of reconciliation. Even worse, when they're not paired with greater change, diversity efforts can have the opposite of their intended effect. They keep the church feeling good, innocent, maybe even progressive, all the while preserving the roots of injustice. ~ Austin Channing Brown

My grandma actually put me in girdles when I was around nine or ten because I had hips even then, and she didn't want boys to be attracted to me. Having hips meant you were a full-grown woman, and I was too young for that. ~ Coco Austin

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is. ~ Lynn Austin

Now, the first preachers of the Christ evangel preached Christ. They did not, in the first place, preach salvation or sanctification or forgiveness, or judgment or heaven. That does not mean that they did not preach those things: they did; but not in the first place. They preached Christ, and all those things were included in the preaching of Christ. ~ Theodore Austin-Sparks

The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly abstract expression
it is a stand-in used in the place of any (or almost any?) verb with a personal subject, in the same sort of way that 'thing' is a stand-in for anynoun substantive, and 'quality' a stand-in for the adjective. ~ J.L. Austin

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls. ~ Austin O'Malley

It's work to be the only person of color in an organization, bearing the weight of all your white co-workers questions about Blackness. It's work to always be hypervisible because of your skim - easily identified as being present or absent - but for your needs to be completely invisible to those around you. It's work to do the emotional labor or pointing out problematic racist thinking, policies, actions, and statements while desperately trying to avoid bitterness and cynicism. ~ Austin Channing Brown

The best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents. ~ Austin Farrer

If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to ~ Austin Grossman

In the shock of his loss, Tony Hastings knew the importance of remaining civilized, with a bomb behind his eyeballs that would blow up if he was not careful. The way was to defuse it with delicate ritual operations. The importance of remembering who we was, Tony Hastings, professor, resident of, son of, father of. Reciting his name as he walked along the road in the dark. Organizing words, constituting thought. Shaving carefully around his mustache. Preparing for what would be given him to feel. ~ Austin Wright

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it. ~ Denise Austin

I'll open up a can of whoop-ass on you! ~ Stone Cold Steve Austin

Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ~ Alfred Austin

Inertia is the death of creativity. You have to stay in the groove. When you get out of the groove, you start to dread the work, because you know it's going to suck for a while - it's going to suck until you get back into the flow. ~ Austin Kleon

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license. ~ Austin O'Malley

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ~ Alfred Austin

Whenever you're at a loss for what move to make next, just ask yourself, What would make a betterstory? ~ Austin Kleon

I do not know how long 'twill be, nor what the future holds for me, but this I know, if Jesus leads me, I shall get home someday ... ~ Lynn Austin

I assaulted Stone Cold Steve Austin and got away with it! It was indeed a very special night for me ... ~ Vince McMahon

White people are notorious for trying to turn race conversations into debates, and then becoming angry or dismissive when people of color won't participate. White people believe this is because people of color haven't thought it through or are stumped by a well-made point. But the truth is, oftentimes people of color don't have the time, energy, or willpower to teach the white person enough to turn the conversation into a real debate. To do so would be a ton of work. ~ Austin Channing Brown

But reconciliation is not about white feelings. It's about diverting power and attention to the oppressed, toward the powerless. It's not enough to dabble at diversity and inclusion while leaving the existing authority structure in place. Reconciliation demands more. ~ Austin Channing Brown