Martavious Russell Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

But I would not break. I would not give up Ember's location, or Riley's underground. The next few hours might have me wishing I was dead, but I would not betray the girl I loved to the organization. They would have to kill me. — Julie Kagawa

The reputation of power IS power. — Thomas Hobbes

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean? — Faye Dunaway

People do business with people who make them feel special. — Robin Sharma

The best advice I ever received was to not rush time. Things will present themselves when the time is right. — Denzel Whitaker

God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Lysistrata: "Calonice, it's more than I can bear,
I am hot all over with blushes for our sex.
Men say we're slippery rogues--"

Calonice: "And aren't they right? — Aristophanes

Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on earth. — R.E. Vance

It made him want to sing hymns he'd never even heard before — Orson Scott Card

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant. — Zosia Mamet

The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in. The familiar details came out: the stag's horns, the bookshelves, the looking-glass, the stove with its ventilator, which had long wanted mending, his father's sofa, a large table, on the table an open book, a broken ash-tray, a manuscript-book with his handwriting. As he saw all this, there came over him for an instant a doubt of the possibility of arranging this new life, of which he had been dreaming on the road. All these traces of his life seemed to clutch him, and to say to him: 'No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, but you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectations, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you. — Leo Tolstoy

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. — Tom Bodett

Black seamen - or "Black Jacks" as African sailors were known - enjoyed a refreshing world of liberty and equality. Even if they were generally regulated to jobs such as cooks, servants, and muscians and endured thier fellow seamen's racism, they were still freemen in the Royal Navy. One famous black sailor wrote, "I liked this little ship very much. I now became the captian's steward, in which I was very happy; for I was extremely well treated by all on board, and I had the leisure to improve myself in reading and writing. — Tony Williams

Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own. — Terry Tempest Williams