Ostatious Quotes & Sayings

I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ. — Anne Rice

One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's a combination of the music of the movement and the church. Those mass meetings are where people got the energy to go on to the next day. — Stanley Nelson Jr.

You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it. — Huey Newton

The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination. — Susan Sontag

Is it a good life, Daddy? Nkiru has taken to asking lately on the phone, with that faint, vaguely troubling American accent. It is not good or bad, I tell her, it is simply mine. And that is what matters. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others. — Gabrielle Bernstein

Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced. — Helen Keller

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight. — Deb Caletti

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. — Cecil Day-Lewis