Amra Quotes & Sayings

Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which it springs. — Stephen Batchelor

I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something. — Taylor Momsen

They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood. — Janet Frame

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech. — James L. Buckley

Imagination is an extraordinary resource within each of us with powers not found in ordinary thought processes. — Deborah Sandella

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy. — Isaac Newton

Other Afghans from American, or from Europe," Amra says, "they come and take picture of her. They take video. They make promises. Then they go home and show their families. LIke she is zoo animal. I allow it because I think maybe they will help. But they forget. I never hear from them. — Khaled Hosseini

Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential. — Madonna Ciccone

I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world. — Uzo Aduba

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night. — Angela Y. Davis

The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences our consumer tastes and our preference for high-paying jobs, but it also alters our capacity to pray, the nature of our prayers, and the ways in which religious tutelage instructs our values. — Robert Wuthnow

The easiest way to have a peek behind the curtain is to learn from those that are ahead of you. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

when your emotions are in motion, take a break and ponder! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life. — Jimmy Cliff