Jorelle Alexander Quotes

#1. Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#2. Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. Transform the earth, not patch up the old plan.

George Herbert Clarke

#4. Working gets in the way of living.

Omar Sharif

#5. What makes you think I ever got married? Married women work themselves to death, all their money goes to husbands who gamble it away. Why would I ever do that to myself?

Kim Van Alkemade

#6. What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. I believed that letting someone in, caring about them ... it gives them power over you, whether they plan it that way or not. It gives them the power to leave, to hurt you. But living, really living, is messy and sometimes ugly and it hurts.

Eve Silver

#8. I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma called it. Full almost to bursting, and ready to give birth to something unthinkable.

Neal Shusterman

#9. I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

Michael Gambon

#10. I nodded and grasped the woman by the arm; the cataphracts released her and turned away like silver automata.

Gene Wolfe

#11. When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

David D. Burns