Arlina Allen Quotes & Sayings

Like so many other pathological personalities in positions of power a million years ago, he might do almost anything on impulse, feeling nothing much. The logical explanations for his actions, invented at leisure, always came afterwards. — Kurt Vonnegut

much of life requires waiting and we have a choice to do it happily or miserably. — M.J. Ryan

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it. — George C. Kimble

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories. — Steven Levitt

History is amoral: events occurred. But memory is moral; what we consciously remember is what our conscience remembers. History is the Totenbuch, The Book of the Dead, kept by the administrators of the camps. Memory is the Memorbucher, the names of those to be mourned, read aloud in the synagogue. — Anne Michaels

We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color. — Ameen Rihani

Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften, can wake you up. — Anne Lamott

I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be. — Jada Pinkett Smith

You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven't found another way [as sexy and beautiful] to explore your own identity and make something of it. — Amber Heard

It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose. — Georges St-Pierre

I looked for Gary in all of the Gary places, but I was too early. These places were all haunted by the future of Gary. — Sam Lipsyte