Atadenovirus Quotes & Sayings

Though who knows the architecture of the mind, and whether the arches that open upon discrete episodes are ordered in any way sequentialy? — Gregory Maguire

Pain is necessary on the path to greatness. — Meg Xuemei X

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about. — Bertrand Russell

We must take a plunge into the darkness before we can fully appreciate the light. — Shane Claiborne

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. — Amiri Baraka

You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there's a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them."
"And there's a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open."
Ash & Urian — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that. — David Byrne

The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. — Margaret Mead

I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious. — Meera Syal

song. I stood up straight — Barbara Park

You might one day be offered the opportunity to display symbols of loyalty. Make sure that such symbols include your fellow citizens rather than exclude them. Even the history of lapel pins is far from innocent. In Nazi Germany in 1933, people wore lapel pins that said "Yes" during the elections and referendum that confirmed the one-party state. In Austria in 1938, people who had not previously been Nazis began to wear swastika pins. What might seem like a gesture of pride can be a source of exclusion. In the Europe of the 1930s and '40s, some people chose to wear swastikas, and then others had to wear yellow stars. — Timothy Snyder