Shortlands Quotes & Sayings

Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple. — Sonya Hartnett

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one. — Mary Cassatt

Educate a woman, you educate a nation, — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

I do not accept history as determinism. I embrace history as possibility [where] we can demystify the evil in this perverse fatalism that characterizes the neoliberal discourse in the end of this century. — Paulo Freire

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing. — Alan Alda

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours. — Belle Boyd

When we are together, it's just us. No one else."

She swallowed hard, but relaxed at his words. "That's good because I don't share. — Carrie Ann Ryan