A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah Quotes

#1. Sometimes you have to be in solitude with yourself, listening to your own heartbeat and acknowledging the brilliance God created as you.

Valerie Winrow

#2. The maliciousness of psychiatry is that it promotes itself as a medical discipline, although it is actually only part of the state authority.24 Therein

Thomas Szasz

#3. In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

Ishmael Beah

#4. Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.

Will Schwalbe

#5. Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Richard Whately

#6. I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.

Lou Doillon

#7. Without execution, ideas are simply illusions.

Ben Tolosa

#8. No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'

Whoopi Goldberg

#9. My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Deborah Moggach

#10. I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things."
"I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile.

Cassandra Clare