12 Mighty Orphans Quotes

#1. In the shade of words sits life itself.

Aisha Mirza

#2. If you are interested in developing some of the higher range occult powers, then I would suggest you not engage in sex too frequently.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvellous plasticity of mind.

Jacob Bronowski

#4. It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

Laurie Anderson

#5. My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

Alex Trebek

#6. We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

Marc Andreessen

#7. Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

Matthew Lesko

#8. We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all the scripting that we achieved; the rest, for most of us, was extemporising.

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

Gayle Forman

#10. Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.

R. K. Milholland

#11. I want you
to undress me
to the sound
of all your
defenses
collapsing.

Lora Mathis

#12. Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#13. On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

Edwidge Danticat