Malieya Pittman Quotes

#1. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. I wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace. I would not have told my woe to a living creature. My own tears meant nothing to me.

Anne Rice

#3. Diodorus Siculus confessed
His gradual ease among the likes of this:
Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible
Beheaded girl, outstaring axe
And beatification, outstaring
What had begun to feel like reverence.
-Strange Fruit

Seamus Heaney

#4. There were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

Orson Scott Card

#5. Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

David Ignatius

#6. Wholly given up to villainy and debauchery, and ride the steed of perfidy and presumption, and dive into the sea of error and impiety, and are united under the banner of Satan.

Bernard Lewis

#7. You're growing old together," she said to me. "You and what frightens you.

Vivian Gornick

#8. You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,'" he said. "It's that simple.

Sarah Dessen

#9. Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#11. Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

Tommy Lee Jones

#12. Either you do the math, or the math will do you." - Eric L. Olson

Eric L. Olson

#13. I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I'm covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book.

Bill Ayers

#14. I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

Gene Hackman