Nelson Mandela Inaugural Speech Quotes & Sayings

They started a great fire in the middle of the market, and from this fire they took burning logs and torches, and these they threw onto the roofs of most of the homes within a one-mile radius. The few men who resisted were shot. This was effectively the end of any kind of life in Marial Bai for some time. Again, the rebels for whom this was retribution were nowhere to be found. — Dave Eggers

If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them? — Munia Khan

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society. — Michael Harrington

Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment. — John Oates

Now, Bill, sit where you are," said the beggar. "If I can't see, I can hear a finger stirring. Business is business. Hold out your right hand. Boy, take his right hand by the wrist and bring it near my right."
We both obeyed him to the letter, and I saw him pass something from the hollow of the hand that held his stick into the palm of the captain's, which closed upon it instantly. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Only lonely people keep diaries — L.M. Montgomery

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared. — Lena Headey

He could not return to living full-time with the Dursleys, not now that he knew the other world, the one to which he really belonged. — J.K. Rowling

People can lie with words, but their faces, and in particular their eyes, give them away. They — David Baldacci

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish. — Hermann Hesse