Favourite Madiba Quotes & Sayings

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England. — Jilly Cooper

To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk about nothing when there was a perpetual shortage of words for all the horrible things that happened in the world. It was better to be silent than to say what didn't matter. One had to protect from the onslaught of wasted words the silent place deep inside oneself, where all the pieces could be arranged in a logical manner, where the opponents abided by the rules, where even if you ran out of possibilities there might be a way to turn defeat into victory. — Aleksandar Hemon

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is. — Nigel Barker

We're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't. — Bob Dylan

Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry. — Rachel Caine

Arguing from consequences is speaking for or against the truth of a statement by appealing to the consequences it would have if true (or if false). — Ali Almossawi

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret
my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law. — William Jennings Bryan

I guess I would say that most of what I've learned about storytelling derives from novels and short stories. I cannot think of a novel or story, or a novelist or story writer, who thinks in terms of three-act structure. — Tom Bissell