Emakala Quotes & Sayings

My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry. — Siri Hustvedt

I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view, nor bring injury on the individual. I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance. I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own; a reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself. — Thomas Jefferson

Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that we love one another. — Chico Xavier

On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge. — John Connolly

But a lady forced is never a lady won — Gregory Benford

In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity. — Herbert Marcuse