Amava Reviews Quotes & Sayings

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen. — Girolamo Savonarola

The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor. — William Greider

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst! — Georgette Heyer

The term "queer" is not simply a 1990s recoding of a pre-Stonewall epithet but here refers to a myriad forms of same-sex and other non-normative kinds of desire that have come to inform certain specific identity groups such as gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender individuals, transsexuals, transvestites, cross dressers, drag queens, drag kings, alternative straights and anyone in between. — Chantal Zabus

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing. — Dominic Chianese

And self-sacrifice is what the Bible means by 'love.' While sin is possessive, love is expansive. Sin's characteristic is the desire to get; love's characteristic is the desire to give. — John R.W. Stott

People are not punished for their deeds but by them — Richard Matheson

Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful. — Emma Woolf

I love boats. Boats are great. You can get all kinds of places and meet all kinds of interesting people, and you never know if they're going to try to eat you or worship you. — Ursula Vernon

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound. — Terry Pratchett

Try the impossible. Don't start low down because that's where you are now. Climb those rungs quickly before they take the ladder away. If you're afraid, say a prayer, but carry on. — Paulo Coelho

He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct. — Noorilhuda

Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth. — Jessi Kirby

By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money. — Barbara Ehrenreich