Ferial Quotes

#1. He'd been expelled from the movement by Gerry Adams in 1985 for threatening to initiate a campaign of murder that would have hampered the new political strategy. It was a bit like being kicked out of the Gestapo for cruelty.

Andy McNab

#2. Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person - some stranger - had gone to the trouble of marking my name onto this envelope. Who was it who had had his mind's eye on me while I hadn't suspected a thing?

Diane Setterfield

#3. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

Pema Chodron

#4. When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today.

Ferial Haffajee

#5. You can buy knowledge but not wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#6. 'Fast Life' is just about going out with your friends and having a good time - I think it's one of those songs that people can relate with and like.

Joe Jonas

#7. You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

David Yates

#8. The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O's roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl's breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.

Eric Gill

#9. My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, and remember who you are. A place, with others of like mind, to find and lose yourself in the transcendental light.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Take your racism and jump in the Tugela!

Ferial Haffajee

#11. There was no skin on my voice and she heard the bones in my words.

Cath Crowley

#12. The idea of black poverty is always presented as the outcome of white wealth, but what South Africa has is a poverty problem, not necessarily a black poverty problem because it is a largely black country.

Ferial Haffajee

#13. There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

Christopher Owens

#14. Art does what reality cannot.

Jayme K.

#15. I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

Patricia Polacco