Mike Shady Quotes & Sayings

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise. — Henry Rollins

Lost things. They claw through the membranes, attempting to summon our attention through an indecipherable mayday. Words tumble in helpless disorder. The dead speak. We have forgotten how to listen. — Patti Smith

At the end of the day, a choice was made and it wasn't ours. So why get all bugabooed about it? — Benjamin R. Smith

We don't need a destination or a way of navigating, because we'll go wherever it takes us — Lemony Snicket

He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope. — Mark Haddon

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is. — Louis Kahn

The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats. — Molly Ivins

My mother used to say the more lost you are, the later it got, the more you had invested in not being lost. That's why people who are lost so often keep heading in the same direction. — Ann Patchett

The severity of the laws prevents their execution. — Charles De Montesquieu

If you're going to trade me, trade me. Whenever they are going to do, let them do it so I can situated. — Antonio Davis

I don't feel safe around anything when Jesus is not the Lord of it. Calvinism without Jesus is deadly; it's fatalism, it's simply Islam. We need Jesus. When the precious doctrines [of Calvinism] are used to perpetuate gloom, severity, introspection, accusations, morbidity, slander, gnat-stringing, and more, the soul is not safe. — Douglas Wilson

They weren't true stories; they were better than that. — Alice Hoffman