Mangas Quotes & Sayings

Being temporary doesn't make something matter any less, because the point isn't for how long, the point is that it happened. — Robyn Schneider

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. — Dan Simmons

People who have never been hunted always seem to think there's a reason for it. 'They wouldn't do it without a cause, would they? You must have done something to provoke them.' As if that was how oppression works. — Fredrik Backman

I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, "This is how Wayne is." I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically. — Lil' Wayne

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict
alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. — Dorothy Thompson

Whenever it shows itself - hope, that is - hands from the crowded streets reach for it with such violent urgency because of the fear that they may never see it again. They do so without knowing that their desperation frightens hope away. Hope also doesn't know that it is its scarcity. that causes the crowd to lunge at it, shredding its robe. And as it struggles to escape, the fabric scraps land in the hands of some but last only for hours, a day, days, a week, weeks, depending on how much fabric each hand is able to catch. — Ishmael Beah

There's no need to rush, Arch Lector. That's the trouble with good legs, you tend to run around too much. If you have trouble moving, on the other hand, you don't move until you damn well know it's time. — Joe Abercrombie

I always look for something that I haven't necessarily done yet because I like to expand my body of work. — Ludacris

Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again. — Jason Aldean

Tea and mangas instead of coffee and newspapers: something elegant and enchanting, instead of adult power struggles and their sad aggressiveness. — Muriel Barbery

I try firstly to make buildings humane. — Moshe Safdie

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you. — Sri Chinmoy

The first step to success in any business is to ask your customers what they want. — Kevin Stirtz

We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, under full Palestinian sovereignty, we will support it. — Ismail Haniyeh

Plans change, Iktomi said. Got a plan that doesn't require explosives.

Are you confident in that? Mangas asked.

I'm a god, Iktomi replied. I'm always confident.

I'm a human, Mangas thought, and we know shit happens. — Brandon Nolta

Strong people are such pitiable people. Always having to fight for the sake of someone else. — Sui Ishida

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire. — Marilynne Robinson

Right, Jenna said. She was sitting on a desk next to me. She spent most of the class reading those mangas she liked so much. — Rachel Hawkins

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination. — John Updike