Marifetli Eller Quotes & Sayings

We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light. — Harold Bloom

And he was gone before she could think clearly enough to explain that her yes was a Yes, I'll marry you. — Melissa Marr

I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book. — Larry Winget

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience. — Mira Nair

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes. — King Hussein I

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. — Gloria Naylor

Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself. — John Updike

The British imperialist logic that led to the Opium Wars reflected this: there was a lot of silver in China, so the idea was to sell Indian opium to the Chinese, get all that silver out in that lucrative sale, and thereby pay for all the goods that were being produced in Manchester and sent to India. When the Chinese resisted opening their doors to the opium trade, the British response was to knock them down with military force. — David Harvey

I'M INTROSPECTIVE, because sometimes I want to take "our" side without looking at the facts in situations like these. Sometimes I feel like it's us against them. Sometimes I'm just as prejudiced as people I point fingers at. And that's not right. How can I look at white skin and make assumptions but not want assumptions made about me? That's not right. — Benjamin Watson