Shami Quotes & Sayings

We are none of us one thing alone and unchanging. We are not static, or at rest. Just as a city or a prince's court or a lineage is many people in one, so is a person many people within one, always unfinished and always like a river's current flowing onward ever changing toward the ocean that is greater than all things combined. — Kate Elliott

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice. — Shami Chakrabarti

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary. — Shami Chakrabarti

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts. — Shomei Tomatsu

We're all bloody inspired - Newt — James Dashner

My future does not depend on me but on any decision by the Togo federation. — Stephen Keshi

After ensuring border security, I then would normalize the status of 11 million undocumented citizens so they can join the work force and pay taxes ... I would normalize them at a rate of about two million per year. — Rand Paul

You're quiet this evening," he said.
I pasted on a pleasant smile. "It's been a long week. I'm just trying to relax." And I was trying to avoid more drama. He was quiet for two or three minutes, during which the two of us stood there together, black-clad vampires moving around us. "I can tell something's bothering - "
We had sex and you bailed, I silently thought, and now your contrition is driving me crazy. "I was just enjoying the music. — Chloe Neill

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it. — Woodrow Wilson

Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?"
"Is that including, or not including you? — Anthony Horowitz

I have done nothing but open windows-God has done all the rest. — Frank C. Laubach

I've always been a very self-aware person. — Troy Polamalu

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty. — Shami Chakrabarti

I thought of telling her that I was seeing a boy, too, or at least that I'd watched a movie with one, just because I knew it would surprise and amaze her that anyone as disheveled and awkward and stunted as me could even briefly win the affections of a boy. — John Green

Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not. — Hans Fallada

The Transitoriness of Life
To what may man's life be compared?
To a boat which rowed away,
Far in the sea, and left no track,
In the morning of the day.
Shami Mansai — Reiko Chiba

His deceased wife, watches her husband from the photograph on his console desk. — David Mitchell