Sissay Modern Quotes & Sayings

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you 'Pro' many thingsPro-Peace, Pro-Human, Pro-Evolution, it makes you Pro-Communication, Pro-Diplomacy, Pro-Love, Pro-Understanding, Pro-Forgiveness. — Eddie Vedder

A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth. — Franz Bardon

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. — David Mamet

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is. — Neale Donald Walsch

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully. — Oprah Winfrey

The present Anglo-German war is then of symbolic significance. In defending modern civilisation against German nihilism, the English are defending the eternal principles of civilisation. — Leo Strauss

To be logical is very illogical. — Debasish Mridha

The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn't leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes. — Scott Hammerle

Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear. — Sandra Cisneros

Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy! — Tae Yun Kim

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character. — Aimee Bender

More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them. — Sophocles

She was convinced the demonic pain she had suffered in her leg as a child had been in some sort of preparation for the accident. Engraved in her memory was how she had been left speechless by the first attack. She had yet to accept that pain cannot be expressed in words but only in inarticulate screams. It took time before she could put brush to canvas, and still more time before she could paint pictures that screamed. In place of the screams themselves. In place of verbal descriptions. She owed it to her father, she thought, to the frantic look in his eyes which she would never forget, and to his words: 'Tell me, tell me! — Slavenka Drakulic

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. — J.K. Rowling

Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule. — George Herbert