Amiyah Quotes & Sayings

I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting - anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote. — Darryl Pinckney

Most firearm-related deaths in America are suicides. — Firmin Debrabander

But if you could for a time wipe out all the poets and all their poetry from the world, then you would soon discover, by their very absence, where the men of action got their energy from, and who really supplied the life-sap to their harvest-field. It is not those who have plunged deep down into the Pundit's Ocean of Renunciation, nor those who are always clinging to their possessions; it is not those who have become adepts in turning out quantities of work, nor those who are ever telling the dry beads of duty,--it is not these who win at last. But it is those who love, because they live. These truly win, for they truly surrender. They accept pain with all their strength and with all their strength they remove pain. It is they who create, because they know the secret of true joy, which is the secret of detachment. — Rabindranath Tagore

We grasp at symbols, talismans, triggers of association to what's forever gone. — Chris Kraus

I don't like being preachy. I think using fun and humor is an excellent way to make people think. — Princess Superstar

It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Indeed, many in the Church are giving up the idea of it except on the occasion of the advent of Christ, which, as it chimes in with our own idleness, is likely to be a popular doctrine. I myself believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be utterly abolished ... The Holy Ghost would never suffer the imputation to rest upon His holy name that He was not able to convert the world. — Charles Spurgeon

lungful of rim block. Her senses sharpened and the urge to vomit left her at last. Hawkins heaved herself up onto her knees and sat back on — Alastair Gunn

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. — David Bailey

When a lot of people are calling you crazy: you're either crazy, or you're onto something. — Scott Belsky

I want to stay involved in gymnastics forever, but the Olympics really opened up doors in terms of motivational speaking. I'd like do some type of broadcasting or commentating for gymnastics events on TV, or even give my insights as a gymnast into other sports; I'm kind of a sports junkie in general. — Jonathan Horton

There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that's what makes them in some ways good fans. — John Ridley

The pleasantries were just ritual, but ritual was important. In Amos' experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be. The loud, blustering ones were trying to get the other guy to back down. They wanted to stay out of a fight. The quiet ones were figuring out how to win it. — James S.A. Corey

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with. — Larry Wall

Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace. — Ariwara No Narihira