Madonsela Clan Quotes & Sayings

I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens. — Marcy Kaptur

Even though the injury has faded, I still see it the way it was right after the accident: raw and red, a jagged lightning bold splitting the symmetry of my face. In this, I suppose I'm like a girl with an eating disorder, who weighs ninety-eight pounds but sees a fat person staring back at her from the mirror. It isn't even a scar to me, really. It's a map of where my life went wrong. — Jodi Picoult

You don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what's right, even when everyone else just runs away. — Steven Moffat

When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I didn't want to. But I've never had a long period of being happy, Do you think anyone has? I think you can be peaceful for a long time, When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. You see, there's very little invention in my books. What came first with most of them was the wish to get rid of this awful sadness that weighed me down . I found when I was a child that if I could put the hurt into words, it would go. It leaves a sort of melancholy behind and then it goes. — Jean Rhys

Life is no play. We meet people once, and never see them again. There is no shape to events, no point at which we turn to the audience for their praise. — Neil Gaiman

Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism — Charmaine Smith Ladd

Mimes in the form of God on high mutter and mumble low and hither and tither fly, mere puppets they who come and go. — Edgar Allan Poe

fools believe in foolish things. — George R R Martin

It was hard to get away from all of the people that I thought had my best interest at heart, and they really didn't. — Michael Vick

The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased. — Tariq Ali

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. — Ansel Adams

Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him
which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion. — George Eliot

This book is not about finding balance - we are really tired of doing that! Besides, finding balance assumes that we have been allowed to be fully introverted. We have not. This book is about embracing the power of introversion. It's about indulging, melting into, drinking in, immersing ourselves in the joy, the genius, and the power of who we naturally are - and not just on the occasional retreat, but in the living of our lives. — Laurie A. Helgoe