Mastani Quotes & Sayings

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know - or seem to have, earn, or know. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. — Sallust

Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world. — Jonathan Granoff

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan. — Gale Anne Hurd

Whenever a new scholar came to out school, I used to confront him at recess with the following words: 'My name's Tom Bailey: what's your name?' If the name struck me favorably, I shook hands with the new pupil cordially; but if it didn't I would turn on my heel, for I was particular in this point. Such names as Higgins, Wiggins, and Spriggins were deadly afronts to my ear; while Lapgdon, Wallace, Blake, and the like, were passing words to my confidence and esteem. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak. — Oliver North

Every child has to raise itself.' Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. — Anne Frank

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is. — Robin Hobb

We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the basis for what I wanted to say about human beings. — Alex Abreu

I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't. — Dennis Quaid

He felt entombed and stifled and desperately craved oxygen. He vainly raised the question: Why have you forsaken me?

'Call my mother,' he yelled. He had meant to say: I'm dying. Please call a priest.

The shadowy Presence, who had been in a panic, rushed over to him and, disregarding the fact that it was live, pushed the cable aside.

'You're alive,' the Presence said in breathless tones. 'Mamma's here to help.'

The elevator continued to descend, creating a vacuum. Barnes gasped for breath.

'Breathe in, breathe out,' the Presence urged. She tapped his pulse rapidly with two fingers. 'Come on, you can do it. One, two, three. Breathe in. Mamma's here to help.' ... In his delirium he thought that indeed his mother was here to help. However, in all of Barnes's twenty-nine years of so-called living, his mother had never come so comfortingly close as this. — Joseph G. Peterson

Of course. The team on your carriage was beautiful. They are yours, aren't they?"
He ignored her and walked ahead until his foot connected with soft mushy ground. "Shit," he muttered.
"Exactly."
He glared at her, thinking himself a saint for not going for her throat. — Julia Quinn

We can say either that we make progress little by little, or that we do not even expect to make progress. Just to be sincere and make our full effort in each moment is enough. — Shunryu Suzuki

I nestle into him with the sensation that we're two creatures of the same species, the last two on the planet, and we've finally found one another. These moments feel expansive, like they contain everything. Like they're almost enough for a lifetime. Almost. — Carolyn Crane

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go. — James Cook