Holler If You Hear Me Book Quotes & Sayings

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature. — Edward Hirsch

Cancer is a word, not a sentence. — John Diamond

Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor ... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn. — Emma Goldman

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim. — Bob Dylan

That long sigh again, above us. This time I saw it, moving through the branches. Like the trees were listening; like they would've been sad about us, sad for us, only they'd heard it all so many thousand times before. — Tana French

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next. — Edith Hamilton

I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience. — Lane Garrison

There are four main sources of the Shari'a: the Koran, which is compiled of thousands of religious verses revealed by God through his Prophet, Mohammed; the Sunna, which are the traditions the Prophet addressed that are not recorded in the Koran; the Ijma, which are the perceptions of the Ulema, or religious scholars; and the Qiyas, which is a method whereby known jurists agree upon new legal principles. — Jean Sasson

We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortification are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is God's arrival that is the important event. — Fulton J. Sheen

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead. — Ambrose Bierce

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. — Max Planck