Mushaira Video Quotes & Sayings

God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself. — Francis Frangipane

It was astounding how a woman, when she struck marital gold, procured not just a new wardrobe and new friends but a new voice straight out of a 1930s gramophone (brittle, mono-stereo) and a vocabulary that reliably included laze, season, and terribly sorry. — Marisha Pessl

He asked < ... > Rosemary, why do you love books so much?
And I said, Well, I don't know < ... > I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park. — Robin Sloan

And what of this new book the whole world makes such a rout about?
Oh ! 'tis out of all plumb, my lord,
quite an irregular thing! — Laurence Sterne

Stand up and be counted, or sit your ass in the corner and color. — Lori Goodwin

This is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice. — Unita Blackwell

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live. — Paul Pearsall

When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore. — Shunryu Suzuki

Superiority? Inferiority?
Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other? — Frantz Fanon

You thinks there's this thing between us, but there never was, and there never will be. - Amy Cahill — Jeff Hirsch