Mad Black Woman Quotes & Sayings

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes. — Andy Stanley

I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way. — Sam Hunt

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer. — Gary Jennings

The municipality sent water through six Annawadi faucets for ninety minutes in the morning and ninety minutes at night. Shiv Sena men had appropriated the taps, charging usage fees to their neighbors. These water-brokers were resented, but not as much as the renegade World Vision social worker who had collected money from Annawadians for a new tap, then run away with it. — Katherine Boo

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings. — Jeanette Winterson

You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it. — John C. McGinley

I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don't believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world. — Edward Witten

As soon as Joe was done feeding Ira Kenby's fucking dog, he was going to call social services again, and Casey would be taken to a home that would be more appropriate for a runaway. So really, Joe would say, they owed much of their lives together to a senile old man and a dog tortured by hunger to the point it didn't know better. (Casey would always reply that they would have met again, because there was just no way they could have lived without each other, but Joe's faith didn't run that deep. Casey would say that was because Joe didn't have a Josiah Daniels in his life, and Joe would shake his head and walk off, but that was later in their story.) — Amy Lane

Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most serious of events are blended with the strange. The author pulled me inside his mind, and what I found there was a dead stillness, the somber and poignant wisdom of someone with little hope and scars across his eyes. There was humor there, too. But not the bright kind. The man who wrote that book is dead. So it goes. — Hugh Howey

In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not. — Steven Soderbergh

Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen by her brother.] — Jane Finnis

Prejudice begins with ignorance, and whenever one culture first meets another, there is ignorance. — Vinh Chung