Shante Smith Quotes & Sayings

It seems I have always been fortunate to be in a certain provident, which must be my sole skill, and worth, and luck. [p. 138] — Chang-rae Lee

The human heart is a dark forest — Tobias Wolff

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband. — Pat Nixon

He's a wreck," I said.
Laughing, my mom patted my knee. "They all are the first time. — S.C. Stephens

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto ... It's the spirit that comes through in music. — Robert Palmer

we laughed awkwardly, in the way British people do when they are experiencing great emotion. — Jojo Moyes

Yet if he lost that desire, who would he be ? What would be in his heart then, if she were gone from it ? — Orson Scott Card

In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic. — Arundhati Roy

With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart's preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights. — Ouida

Art might be beautiful even though the artist is not. — Debasish Mridha

You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are. — Frederick Lenz