Abeng Michelle Cliff Quotes

#1. Disrupt, and you will be saved.

Jill Lepore

#2. During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.

Tahir Shah

#3. The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

Seymour Papert

#5. See a day,
not with the open eyes,
but with the open mind from far away.

Debasish Mridha

#6. You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

Julia Cameron

#7. When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

Tara Brach

#8. The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Tariq Ramadan

#9. You don't always get to chose who you fall in love with

Stephani Hecht

#10. When life gives you lemons... chuck them at someone's head. You'll be surprised how good it feels.

Nicole Hofmann

#11. There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

Robert Breault

#12. I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

Veronica Roth

#13. If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

Vernor Vinge

#14. The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

Karl Pilkington