Shaleka Dawit Quotes & Sayings

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre. — Edward Gibbon

People say this all the time and everyone, like, nods their head and is like, 'Oh yeah, totally,' but no one ever does it, including myself. I can do better at it, is just drinking a lot of water, like a gallon and a half, two gallons a day, like, straight water all day. — Ronda Rousey

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. — Donald Rumsfeld

I'd hate to be a giraffe with a sore throat. — Mitch Hedberg

I didn't think he'd go back for him. But it shouldn't surprise me, either, I guess ... given their relationship. I'm extremely curious where they're hiding him, as he doesn't blend. At all. Ever. I can't imagine where they could put him that he wouldn't attract a lot of attention ... in either form." Xev
"Well, aren't we Mr. Dark and Cryptic ... shall we call him?" Nick pulls out his phone.
"I doubt he knows how to work that. I'm sure he'd sniff it and eat it if you gave him one. Do you know where they're keeping him?" Xev
"You know how akri-Caleb's house is up off the ground and gots all that room under it for storage?" Simi
"Oh dear Gods, he's in my wine cellar? Seriously? I'm thinking I should have made amends with my brother sooner and moved him into my house to watch the puca. What kind of mutant life form do I have living in my cellar? And do I need to fumigate my house?"" Caleb — Sherrilyn Kenyon

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose. — Pattiann Rogers

When you are subjected to the malicious and furious violence of the passions, and to the harassments of the Devil, during the fulfillment of various works for God, accept these sufferings as sufferings for the name of Christ, and rejoice in your sufferings, thanking God; for the Devil is preparing you, without knowing it himself, the most shining crowns from the Lord. — John Of Kronstadt

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so. — Bob Geldof

I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do. — Eric Fischl

I think God has blessed each of us with at least one gift. So I think it's a matter of do we find it within our lifetime. — Ving Rhames

I could reach great heights with your love,and with longing for you
I will increase a hundredfold.
They ask, why are you circling him?
O ignorance, I am circling myself. — Jalaluddin Rumi

The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life. — Mary Shelley

Being is seeing in the human dimension. — Stephen R. Covey

We have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life
or change the whole world. — Jack Gantos