Jhene Aiko Chilombo Quotes

#1. Connection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants, can become windows to the inner life. The simple act of stopping and looking at the beauty around us can be prayer.

Patricia R. Barrett

#2. If I couldn't see the upside, I couldn't be bothered, and as soon as I couldn't see the upside in that job I started looking elsewhere.

Bill Rancic

#3. At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship's hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered for a moment, then came as a visitor, and finally became master of the house.

Israel Shenker

#4. Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

Ellie Goulding

#5. It was as if whatever demon possessed them, whatever force kept their corpses from the grave, had refined them in the blaze of its power, burning away their humanity to reveal something finer.

Holly Black

#6. I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.

Diane Ackerman

#7. It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.

Robert Frost

#8. Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again - in a new way.

Gloria Steinem

#9. Americans see independence as a symbol of strength, viewing interdependence as a sign of weakness

Adam M. Grant

#10. The kind of woman who would breeze into the bathroom while I was shaving and say, Yo, shithead - you going to fix that shelf like you said, or do I have to take you back to Husbands-R-Us?

Michael Marshall Smith

#11. We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle.

Carl Hiaasen

#13. You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

Salman Rushdie

#14. If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

Gabrielle Zevin