Awake 2007 Quotes & Sayings

I'm letting no man handle my bank account. — Hattie McDaniel

God, forgive those whose atrocities are so great
I will not. — Landon Parham

He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for a few lucky ones they last for years. The memories from those moments stays with us forever and turns into a country of memory to which we try to go back for the rest of our lives without ever being able to — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery. — Mahatma Gandhi

The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow. — Bertrand Russell

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing. — Bob Kerrey

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at. — Vincent Cassel

How do women all know what to do with babies? It's like they have their own special kind of sorcery. — Rae Carson

Then, at last, sitting on her stretcher-bed, she took from the very bottom of her pack an old peacock-blue scarf folded around a heavy, square book. She unwrapped it and opened it very carefully, as if guilty secrets might fall from between its pages like pressed flowers. This was Harry's secret. She was a writer. — Margaret Mahy

Well, I already know what happened to my face", I say. "I was there. Sort of — Veronica Roth