Teklehaimanot Quotes & Sayings

Pity is an emotion that should have never been created. Pity was strong and could break the backs of people fighting for survival and respect. I couldn't stand pity. — Elizabeth Isaacs

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room. — Colm Toibin

I have a theory," Emily said. "I'm not a djinni," Yacub replied. "I'm not dead either." "I might have never met Harriet if it wasn't for you." Yacub shook his head. "You'd been following each other for so long, at some point you were bound to collide." "Maybe. I saw you fall. And I know you saved Jack's life. And Harriet and Michael - you helped them." "No. They are married. They are happy." "What do you really think about all of us, Yacub?" He shrugged. "I'm here. This is where I belong." "Do you think?" Yacub shrugged again. "Sometimes. Some days." "Tell me about when you were on the plane, Yacub." A frown passed across Yacub's face. "What plane? — Kate Pullinger

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way. — Richard Flanagan

Either way, the thought of entire lives lost - family celebrations, Christmases and birthdays, love affairs and bedtime stories, weddings and high school graduations - because of a misfire or unexplained chaos inside a person's brain, made her chest constrict. It wasn't fair. — Ellen Marie Wiseman

It seemed we Chechens spend our energies building our houses and our lives, only to have the devastated and to start rebuilding them again. — Khassan Baiev

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period. — John Bolton

Does he train you all to be creepy sociopaths or is that a prerequisite before he hires you — Jocelyn Adams

To hate everything is to be wounded by everything. — Marty Rubin

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets — Samuel Johnson

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child. — Kamala Harris

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. — David Whyte

He wasn't sure which side of the argument he came down on, but at least he wasn't going around melting people for an audience. Besides, for the moment he figured he'd choose the side that wasn't actively trying to kill him. He strolled and stuck — Brandon Sanderson

Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them. — Robert M. Price

Sanguine took a moment, finding it hard to process the information. He ... this guy uses a wand? For real? He actually uses a wand? Like a wizard? ... Don't the other Necromancers have any sense of pride? What's he gonna do next, fly around on a broomstick? This ain't Harry Potter. — Derek Landy