Sophana Quotes & Sayings

In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily. — William Howard Taft

Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you. — Ricky Maye

It seemed hard to believe that human beings could be capable of such cruelty, and in the name of God. Sickened — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights. — Charles Sumner

Go your ways! and let the people and peoples go theirs!- gloomy ways, verily, on which not a single hope glints any more! — Friedrich Nietzsche

He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES. HAVE A LOOK FREE. There was a black bear about four feet long and very thin, resting on the floor of the cage; his back was spotted with bird lime that had been shot down on him by a small chicken hawk sitting on a perch in the upper part of the same apartment. Mose of the hawk's tail was gone; the bear only had one eye. — Flannery O'Connor

I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on. — Joshilyn Jackson

Run, little dreamer. — Samantha Shannon

Every governor's got tough choices to make. — Bob McDonnell

'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location. — Spike Lee

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world. — Marc Benioff

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I feel like the 'NCIS' set is where people are allowed to be the nice human beings they really are. That quality is valued there. — Julie Ann Emery

I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period. — Amber Tamblyn