Starlette Johnson Quotes & Sayings

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. — Maya Angelou

I should have my own publishing companies. — Solomon Burke

Words don't come easily, like forgive me. — Tracy Chapman

War may represent the failure of diplomacy, but even the best diplomats operate on credit. Sooner or later someone who's less reasonable than you are is going to call you, and if your military can't cover your I.O.U.s, you lose. — David Weber

Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings. — Frances Power Cobbe

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture. — Mo Ibrahim

Sup, Andrews?" he says. 'Sup? He's a white boy in a polo shirt. 'Sup is he's a poser. I don't respond. — Chelsea Fine

[About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events. — Joel Henry Hildebrand

After a hundred years
Nobody knows the place,
Agony, that enacted there,
Motionless as peace. — Emily Dickinson

Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid? — Annie Dillard

I decided about a year ago, and I just feel like I want to see more personal style in people, and I feel like if I'm going to be out there in the public eye, they should see who I am and how I dress, and I feel like it, also. — Emily Procter

People didn't want the truth about the other side. They just wanted hope. — T.L. Hines

When it's happening it is too beautiful, too overwhelming, and you can feel it's being lost with every breath you take. — Anne Rice

What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem. — Os Guinness

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote. — Bruce Sterling