Beneatha Important Quotes

#1. And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

Lance Ito

#2. It wasn't that we started to look at things because there was now a mechanism by which to see them. There first had to be a will to see, buried somewhere inside living things. Without it, the mechanism would never have taken shape.

Koji Suzuki

#3. Immortality is an aim, not a fact.

Gregory Benford

#4. I held her shoulder blades, caressing the grooves of her ribs, scooping her in my arms and feeling her tense muscles loosen up. She was indeed a dirty martini with a twist.

Kavipriya Moorthy

#5. You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but ... It is beautiful.

Brian Cox

#6. Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.

Lauryn Hill

#7. I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.

Lisa O'Hare

#8. Master your thoughts and you master your world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows himself to me, I will have Peace, and He will be near me and in me, and I will rest in Him.

Thomas Merton

#10. We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Sue Grafton

#11. The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

Dalai Lama

#12. Take a woman talking,
purging herself with rhymes,
drumming words out like a typewriter,
planting words in you like grass seed.
You'll move off.

Anne Sexton

#13. I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#14. Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.

Barbara Sher