Onyebuchi Nteje Quotes & Sayings

But though we'll know forward and we've known backward, we will never know the present. This moment and the next one and even the one that would have been right now are gone, already passed, and all we're left with are these tired bodies, the only proof that we've lived through time and survived it. It'll be worth it, though, in the end. — Tahereh Mafi

You can't let your past define your future. Once you get that figured out, you begin to understand the joy of living in the present. And the present is full of tiny gifts that we can only see when we stop looking behind and ahead of us. Sometimes, these gifts land right at our feet. Sometimes, it's our feet that carry us toward them, running at full-speed until our hearts nearly give out. Either way, never stop noticing them, and never stop wishing. — Cassia Leo

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. — Clifford Odets

When I was little I always wanted to drive a train. That, and become a baker. — Zach Braff

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that. — Rashida Jones

a liberal who used human-rights issues to benefit and free criminals rather than think of the victim's — Eric Rickstad

Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing up to their biology. — Alexandra Robbins

Fletcher shrugged. "Science and mathematics are all the rage, you know. But who has time for good old Horace? — Ashley Gardner

You can do amazing things when you believe. — Gerard Way