Akua Quotes

#1. Akua rested her head against a rock, and did not speak until she heard the girls' soft and sleepy breaths floating about her like tiny butterflies.

Yaa Gyasi

#2. Prayer was not a sacred or holy thing. It was not spoken plainly, in Twi or English. It need not be performed on the knees or with folded palms. For Akua, prayer was a frenzied chant, a language for those desires of the heart that even the mind did not recognize were there.

Yaa Gyasi

#3. Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. I couldn't master this kind of apathy, no matter how hard I tried. I was built to care - to notice, to overanalyze, to try - in a way that felt inalterable.

Emery Lord

#5. Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

Ben Harper

#6. I love to see the sunshine on the wings of the Dragonflies... there is magic in it.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#7. People say to me, 'Do you know who you look like?' And I say, 'I'm really tired of looking like that guy.'

Bill Cosby

#8. When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

John Oliver

#9. It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.

Josh Smith

#10. Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Marlene Dietrich

#11. Will it matter In 100 years who was right and who was wrong in our political arguments in our great nation? What will matter will be the legacy that our diligent footsteps leave for all who come behind us to comple the work in preserving America ... which will always better humanity in the process!

Timothy Pina

#12. God does not seek the opinions of others about your life.

Bryant McGill

#13. I am not me, I said to the ocean, to the old feet, to the face in the mirror. And it was true. In the dream, the reflection staring back at me was not my own. It was my mother's.

David Arnold

#14. This is boring, my brain said; nothing to see here. Let's do something else. Let's start a fire.

Robert Brockway

#15. Nature, through all her works, in great degree,
Borrows a blessing from variety.
Music itself her needful aid requires
To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

Charles Churchill

#16. There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

Philip Sidney

#17. The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

Paul Weyrich