Kassiah Johnson Quotes & Sayings

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading. — Erica Jong

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. — Finley Peter Dunne

Nobody is good or bad. They are either strong or weak. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations. Weak people, many a times, do not even realise how low they have fallen. — Amish Tripathi

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun. — Austin O'Malley

I had always been appalled by the variation of the gospel of prosperity — Sunday Adelaja

We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. — Barack Obama

I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me. — Jack Whitehall

Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult. — Hans Rosling

Only, sometimes, in the text of a book here and there, we tap the page with a finger and say, This is what my lost days were like. Something like this. — Gregory Maguire

Youth is the one worthwhile treasure in this world, no matter how miserable the rest of life might be. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality. — Frank Herbert

The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or stones that studded her way. She spoke to the dead whenever they visited her. She tried to be kind, but they realised that they no longer had anything in common with her, and she realised it, too. So they went their separate ways. — Helen Oyeyemi

When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man) — Katsura Hoshino

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Oh, sure. Let me just ask my geek brother to stop slaying zombie ninjas for a few hours so I can borrow the PC and catch up on my Victorian horror lit. — Kelly Creagh