Selfishly Scheming Quotes & Sayings

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition. — Wynton Marsalis

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know. — Aisha Mirza

You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time. — Matshona Dhliwayo

my subconscious so full it must spill over — Dorothy Hewett

Alex's T-shirt is red, and for a second I think it's a trick of the light, but then I realise he's drenched, soaked in blood: blood seeping across his chest, like the stain seeping up the sky, bringing another day to the world. Behind him is that insect army of men, all running toward him at once, guns drawn. The guards are coming too, reaching for him from both sides ... The helicopter has him fixed in it's spotlight. He is standing white and still and frozen in its beam, and I don't think I have ever, in my life, seen anything more beautiful than him. — Lauren Oliver

She'd done the right thing in God's eyes. That's all that mattered. — Ann Shorey

Someone had ripped the heart right out of my chest like that creepy Indian priest rocking a skull-hat adorned with a shrunken head in The Temple of Doom. I had no idea if it was even physically possible to rip a heart out of a human chest with just a hand, but there really was no other way to explain this feeling. — Ashlan Thomas

Looking down the barrel of your eye, I see the body of a Bloody Cinderella looking back. — Djuna Barnes

In a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful. — David Mitchell