Bsg Tigh Quotes & Sayings

I feel like I am without substance, without weight. — Veronica Roth

Harriet Thomas, a leader of the Women's Peace Party, startled the committee [debating the Espionage Act] when she told them, 'It seems to me that under this act I would be liable to imprisonment for life, or a more drastic penalty, perhaps, if I should say that I would rather my sons be shot for refusing to go out and kill and bear arms against a supposed enemy of this country.' A congressman interrupted her to ask, 'Then you do not honor your citizenship in this country?' Thomas stood her ground. 'I feel I have the right to interpret my loyalty to my own country in my own terms of citizenship, and according to my own conscience, and I do not need any bill to tell me what my of country shall represent. — Ernest Freeberg

Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world. — Aurora Levins Morales

Make a fist. Lightly. Leave enough room for a breath to pass through. Good. Good. All magic proceeds from breath. Remember that. — Clive Barker

They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood and watched him pass and watched him vanish upon that landscape solely because he was passing. Solely because he would vanish. — Cormac McCarthy

It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written. — Sienna Miller

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. — Gautama Buddha

Everything people forget about ends up there one day, they said. Toys, tables, whole houses. And people end up there too. They get forgotten as well. — Lev Grossman

Do you know what is nice about friendships as longstanding
as ours?" Hyacinth interrupted.
Felicity shook her head.
"You won't take permanent offense when I turn my
back and walk away."
And then Hyacinth did just that. — Julia Quinn

On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest in ideas and see them translate into products and services and create jobs. What I didn't like, particularly where I was working in Brazil during the debt crisis of the early '80s, was how the poor were excluded from the banking system. I made the decision to try and experiment with whether we could use the tools of banking to extend the benefits of the economy to the poor. — Jacqueline Novogratz

You don't need someone to tell you what to do. You know what you need to do. Do it. — Randy Gage

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all. — Cathy Davidson

In any case, in general, I prefer to avoid conflict when I can. Not because I'm afraid or because I'm too weak to fight back. But because conflict eats up your time. It is exhaustive in terms of energy you have to expend to be involved in it. More if you mean to win, and I'd never do it if I didn't mean to win. I'd rather spend my time on other things and in general, most people aren't worth that much of my time and energy. — Lauren Dane

But what a gamble friendship is. — E.B. White

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick. — Mahatma Gandhi