Teklay Fessahaye Quotes & Sayings

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me. — Said Sayrafiezadeh

The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition. — Hilaire Belloc

In baseball, there's always the next day. — Ryne Sandberg

One can legitimately accentuate certain things, like a caricaturist. — Antony Armstrong-Jones

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is. — Alicia Keys

'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia. — Kate Grenville

The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive. — Rainbow Rowell

Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.
How would that be? Just how would that be? — Stephen King

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot. — Sophia Bush

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self — Leo Tolstoy

Some people are so stupid that they actually think there are thick neon lines separating good and evil. That it's easy to make that kind of distinction and go to sleep at night with a clear conscience. — Tahereh Mafi

It really tests you as a person as far as whether you can handle failure. — Jason Bay

Gossip is more popular than literature. — Hugh Leonard

Ignore and ignorance share the same root. — Kathryn Erskine

The poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko