To Kill A Mockingbird Atticus Fairness Quotes & Sayings

Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth. — Pat Conroy

Most art is just surface noise. — Walter Darby Bannard

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting. — Katy Perry

In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us. — Alice Hegan Rice

And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned, — Lupita Nyong'o

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening. — Darren Shan

What's so civil about war anyway? — Axl Rose

I don't think in terms of failure ... I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon. — Whoopi Goldberg

The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up. — Philip Roth

I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention. — Bill O'Reilly

Missing someone is the worst form of torture because it never goes away no matter where you are or what you do with your life. When a person is gone and all you have of them is a fuzzy recollection of what it was like to hear your phone buzz with texts from them, the joy you experienced while in their company, that instance when the bond you shared shattered, you long for all that was lost and could've been gained. You have memories and nothing more. And no matter how much times passes, you still feel the ache of their absence whenever they rise into your thoughts. Torture. — Caroline George

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice. — Ian Goldin

Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things. — Kenneth Eade