Lirael Book Quotes & Sayings

Western technology made slavery unnecessary; Western ideas made it intolerable. — Bernard Lewis

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything. — John C. Maxwell

It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of my first readings abroad and trying to relate with people my own age there and what they were discovering and learning had to examine in terms of their backgrounds. Then so many of my friends had family who had either perished in the holocaust or survived in the holocaust. It was very palpable. — Anne Waldman

The Dog was a different matter. She was new, or so old that any book that told of her was long since dust. The creature in the fog thought the latter. — Garth Nix

You have to look in the mirror and see that what you're wearing looks good on the body you have now. Wearing a larger size is just ... wearing a larger size. — Stacy London

Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all women had been cursed from the cradle; all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men. Frank claimed that she got it all wrong side up: it was men who suffered because they had to put up with the ways of women - and this from the time that they were born until the day they died. — James Baldwin

If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn. — Victoria Coren Mitchell

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress. — Stella Gibbons

I can't worry about what people are going to think of me and if they're going to like me more than other people. You just have to be present and live in the moment and if it works out, then awesome and I wish everyone who is trying to do the same thing, genuinely the best of luck. — Victoria Justice

Not too long ago, I was speaking at Princeton, and some of the students asked me how they were to choose which issue of social justice is the most important. The question made me cringe. Issues? These issues have faces. We're talking not only about ideas but also about human emergencies. My response to the well-intentioned Princeton students was, Don't choose issues; choose people. Come play in the fire hydrants in North Philly. Fall in love with a group of people who are marginalized and suffering, and then you won't have to worry about which cause you need to protest. Then the issues will choose you. — Shane Claiborne

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp. — Agnes Repplier