Piepzna Samarasinha Quotes & Sayings

What a mouse he is made by conversation,' " Ezri recited. " 'Scorns gods, dares battle, and flinches from a maid's rebuke! Merest laugh from merest girl is like a dagger felt, and like a dagger, makes a lodging of his breast. Turns blood to milkwater and courage to faint memory.' — Scott Lynch

I said I loved her. That was when all the problems started — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

I am in constant search of charitable work and thank Allah that I am happy, that my children are happy, and I like that all of my family is happy. — Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

Do more than:Stop self-destructing. Save each other. Not have a nervous breakdown or six by twenty five. Decolonize our minds, our hair, our hearts. Transform into the phoenixes we were all meant to be. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

I'm not afraid," Rafi said.
"Why not?"
"If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today. — Mark Helprin

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither. — Justina Chen

In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they profess? Or do they furnish their children with arguments for the defense of that faith? ... it is not surprising to see them abandon a position which they are unable to defend. — William Wilberforce

I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward. — Damian Kulash

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart. — George Eliot

But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded. — Evan Parker

We're sistas. We treat each other like sistas. That's the blessin'. That's the problem. We come together cause we're both bein' fucked over by the same people. We get close. And then we fall in love with each other cause us third world diva gals are beautiful and blessed like none other. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world. — Robert Gilpin

If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose depravity of the twentieth century. — Barbara Kingsolver

Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there. — Ernie J Zelinski

And somewhere in that sweaty brown hot box of brown gay, I found myself. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

I find, that, in general, alliances based on friendship are the only things that last. Not alliances based on words and letters. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less! — Nathan Myhrvold

I fucking hated pity. It was a wasted emotion. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

The thing I always wanted to say is that surviving abuse sucks. But it's also a choose-your-own-adventure story. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities [between Rome and Persia], undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect. — Edward Gibbon

I realize how much I have wanted this and not gotten it [good love], realize how much it is branded in my heart that, to be happy, alone, and childless is a fucking gift that most women get brainwashed into relinquishing. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

First, know where you want to go. Then, go where you want to go. You are your own pilot and you can choose your Destination. - RVM. — R.v.m.