Masarat Taye Quotes & Sayings

In the middle to late 1970s, when Putin joined the KGB, the secret police, like all Soviet institutions, was undergoing a phase of extreme bloating. Its growing number of directorates and departments were producing mountains of information that had no clear purpose, application, or meaning. An entire army of men and a few women spent their lives compiling newspaper clippings, transcripts of tapped telephone conversations, reports of people followed and trivia learned, and all of this made its way to the top of the KGB pyramid, and then to the leadership of the Communist Party, largely unprocessed and virtually unanalyzed. — Masha Gessen

Professional competitions are overrated. — Oksana Baiul

Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. — John Gardner

Things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible. — Catherine Opie

Addie was the greatest joy of Celia's life. Not a burden. Not a tragedy. A gift. A gift that God had perhaps insisted on giving her even when, in fear, she'd asked for the opposite. — Becky Wade

We commute to computers;
Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors.
We survivalists, turned to consumers ... — Talib Kweli

Things are bigger than you because God is bigger than you. When you see that God is guiding your life, you're better off. — Leigh Hershkovich

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little. — Madonna Ciccone

Ky watches me with that look in his eyes, the one sad and full of love at the same time, the one he gives me when he knows something I don't, something he thinks has been stolen from me. — Ally Condie

Standing behind" a politician just because you voted for him or her does not make you patriotic, or loyal, or even smart - what it does make you is derelict in your responsibilities as a citizen. — Joseph Befumo

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love. — Thomas Jefferson

Life is not meant to be an open-book test. — Alyson Noel

Silence is the door to Oran Mor. Close your eyes. Quieten your thoughts. And listen. Listen in particular to the sound of the waves. Let the Great Song sing in you. In an hour I will ring a bell. When you hear it, make a sound that resonates with the waves. Let it flow and develop, calling on all you have heard in the silence. — Alan McCluskey

From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture. — Max Stirner

Why are they doing that?" his mother said, frowning at her grandsons. The boys were sorting the casserole into piles on their plates.
"Doing what?" Eve asked.
"Why aren't they eating their food?"
"They don't like it when things touch," Eve said.
"What things?" his mother asked.
"Their food. They don't like it when different foods touch or mix together."
"How do you serve dinner, in ice cube trays? — Rainbow Rowell