Chisako Yamaka Quotes & Sayings

Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern. — Trey Gowdy

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha". — David Pietrusza

None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting. — Idries Shah

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life. — Billie Jean King

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction. — Janet Reno

Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a solid citizen, the embodiment of hard work and rugged individualism. You're no criminal. The criminal is the guy who comes up short, who gets caught, who fails to adopt a respectable cover. — Luc Sante

When I was in third grade, I would run home - literally run home from school - and if I could make it in time, I could get home and the put the TV on in time to catch the answering machine message at the start of 'The Rockford Files.' — Greg Rucka

When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath. — Confucius

Sojourner Truth, who squelched the heckler with an oft-quoted speech. In the first place, she said, Jesus came from "God and a woman - man had nothing to do with it."66 Secondly, Truth asserted that women were not inherently weak and helpless. Raising herself to her full height of six feet, flexing a muscled arm, and bellowing with a voice one observer likened to the apocalyptic thunders, Truth informed the audience that she could outwork, outeat, and outlast any man. Then she challenged: "Ain't I a woman?"67 — Paula J. Giddings

True wisdom lies in the pure roots of untouchedly souls. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

These captive men are the hidden price for a hiden lie: the righteous must be able to locate the damned. — James Baldwin

The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't; b] he has a high IQ, but they don't. — Steve Sailer

Even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in. — Shannon Hale

Not knowing whether it was El's or Diablo's made the decision easy. There was no way that I could have it if I was. — Nika Michelle

Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness. — Kelly Link