Top 15 Halberstam Books Quotes
#1. Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.
Clinton Smith
#2. What though the field be lost?
All is not Lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And the courage never to submit or yeild.
John Milton
#3. Though one were strong as seven,
He too with death shall dwell,
Nor wake with wings in heaven,
Nor weep for pains in hell;
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#4. I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
Tom Hooper
#6. My culture may be different from yours, but that should not be a reason for you to sneer at it. If a bunch of us appreciate it, then there must be something special to be learned by everyone, even you a stranger.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#7. Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.
Muhammad Ali
#8. It was far better, he thought, just to get on with life yourself, to have your own adventures and make your own mistakes, without raising a banner over them that proclaimed: I'm this, or I'm that; of this party or of the other one.
Anthony McDonald
#9. Dr Howell drank from the special cup which was tied around the handle with red cotton to distinguish the staff cups from those of the patients, and thus prevent the interchange of disease like boredom loneliness authoritarianism.
Janet Frame
#10. Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.
Andy Borowitz
#11. Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals ...
Edward Gibbon
#12. The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.
Nadeem Aslam
#14. The sad truth is,
we are all grown ups and most of us are
matured.
However, not all of us are old enough to
accept that loving someone doesn't
guarantee you that they will love you in
return.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#15. I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?' I was like, 'What's she talking about?'
Jennifer Hudson
