Maryse Conde Quotes

#1. A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.
A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. Wake up and dare to try... Time doesn't care to fly!

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. I have no intention of sharing my authority.

Louis XVI Of France

#4. I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

Desi Arnaz

#5. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Alexandre Dumas

#6. I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. Life is too kind to men, whatever their color.

Maryse Conde

#8. They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for which there is no pardon. She had struck a white man. She had not killed him, however. In her clumsy rage she had only managed to gash his shoulder

Maryse Conde

#9. We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#10. And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.

Michael Chabon

#11. Education is wonderful - it helps you worry about things all over the world.

Joey Lauren Adams

#12. I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.

Samantha Shannon

#13. Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

Ziggy Marley

#14. My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

Randy Bachman

#15. The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.

Maryse Conde

#16. My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy ... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

Lord Melbourne

#17. I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute.

Alexandre Dumas