Maaza Quotes

#1. Any kid in the world can draw from strengths within - we all have the potential with that.

Lily James

#2. Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.

Maaza Mengiste

#3. I told her, "I got the chips if you got the dip."
She said when I dip, that I better be equipped
and keep my hand on her hips ...

Ludacris

#4. I've always been a monster,' Scapegrace told her, 'but now, finally, my physical for reflects my inner darkness.'
'You smell terrible.'
'That's the smell of evil.'
'It's like rancid meat and bad eggs.'
'Evil, Scapegrace insisted.

Derek Landy

#5. What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Edward Hopper

#6. Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Friedrich List

#7. The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.

Maaza Mengiste

#8. How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

Maaza Mengiste

#9. Who can I marry? Where can I live? What kind of career can I achieve? These are just some of the stories breaking with Anthem-like implications. And the ideas crushing the individual are all around us, chipping away at us constantly.

Jeff Britting

#10. Let's get the talking over and done with, so we can move on to the fun part. You know, the part where my cock gets to meet yours?" - Logan

Ella Frank

#11. Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

Samuel Johnson

#12. We must not be anything other than what we are.

Maaza Mengiste

#13. A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

Maaza Mengiste

#14. The mind is beautiful and always in search of beauty.
In a moment it can run from joy to untold agony.

Debasish Mridha

#15. The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

Maaza Mengiste

#16. The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings.

Witold Rybczynski

#17. Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.

Gloria Steinem

#18. I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

Groucho Marx

#19. It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

Dan Buettner

#20. When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

Maaza Mengiste