Lyddie Chapter 12 Quotes

#1. Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

Jack Kerouac

#2. Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.

Paul Krugman

#3. If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business asking anyone for anything, let alone their time and interest. Don't show the world, he said, invent the world.

Whitney Otto

#4. One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

Norman Vincent Peale

#5. Everything, every speck of dust, every drop of water continue to exist eternally, albeit in different forms, except for my soul?

Amos Oz

#6. The desire of Kenyans is manifest. They know too well that their invincible, invisible, nameless, faceless, yet omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent rulers are condemned to serve them for life!

Levi Cheruo Cheptora

#7. Not I; I must be found;
My parts, my title, and my perfect soul,
Shall manifest me rightly.

William Shakespeare

#8. I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people.

Amanda Abbington

#9. Learn to love being black.

Don Lemon

#10. It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are ...
... We must always take risks. That is our destiny ...

T. S. Eliot

#11. Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises; and then, unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost heritage.

Rabindranath Tagore

#12. Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and
free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

Sri Aurobindo

#13. Your garbage, transformed, is your gift.

Yehuda Berg

#14. Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

Milton Friedman

#15. Waiting times are growing times and learning times. As you quiet your heart, you enter His peace ... as you sense your weakness, you receive His strength ... as you lay down your will, you hear His calling.

Roy Lessin