Makita Quotes

#1. Would America have been America without her Negro people?

W.E.B. Du Bois

#2. I'm a bat, want to see me fly?

Alex Flinn

#3. You are such a jerk! Get back here!"
"Jerk?" he repeated. " You're the one spying in windows.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#4. You may not be responsible for getting knocked down. But you're certainly responsible for getting back up.

Wally Amos

#5. Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

Al-Ghazali

#6. Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

Dean Koontz

#7. When things start to get rough, you find comfort in your faith. Knowing that no matter what, you can dust yourself off and be okay.

Marcus Mariota

#8. She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

Anne Stuart

#9. If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#10. preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;

Joan D. Chittister

#11. The park admits the wind,
the petals lift and scatter

like versions of myself I was on the verge
of becoming; and ten years on

and ten blocks down I still can't tell
whether this dispersal resembles

a fist unclenching or waving goodbye.

Rachel Wetzsteon

#12. To be forgotten, is to die a little.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#13. Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of individuals against a government that had gone mad over sexual harassment.

Virginia Postrel

#14. God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

Oswald Chambers