Jongintaba Quotes & Sayings

She was Grandma Will. That term felt foreign and unfitting to the relationship they had. She wondered if her father had ever called her Mother, Ma, Mom, Mama? Maybe in private he might have, but to the world, all the world, it was Aunt Will. — Pamela Morsi

I am a face in a trance, evoking duende. My face imbues breath and stuns you with star-spirit. I am grove-face, story-teller face, and dawn-bringer face. A face as common as carrots and celery, called upon as a father to be cook, waiter, servant, and maid. — Jimmy Santiago Baca

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster. — Josiah Strong

Valor is the contempt of death and pain. — Tacitus

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us. — Margaret J. Wheatley

There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone. — Robert Breault

I was afraid he would pull away, that he would retreat into himself and resist my comfort. But — Jody Hedlund

No movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component' ... Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out — Ingrid Newkirk

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life. — Henry Miller

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it. — Chiwetel Ejiofor