Paige Mahoney Quotes

#1. Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

#2. I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.

Curtis Granderson

#3. Don't you believe people when they tell you that people sought for a sign, and believed in miracles because they were ignorant. They did it because they were wise, filthily, vilely wise - too wise to eat or sleep or put on their boots with patience.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield.

Samantha Shannon

#5. I would never see him again.
But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him.
Now I had only to trust in myself.

Samantha Shannon

#6. The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

Vin Scully

#7. Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there.
Trust me.

Samantha Shannon

#8. Some revolutions change the world in a day. Others take decades or centuries or more, and others still never come to fruition. Mine began with a moment and a choice.

Samantha Shannon

#9. The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.

Ronald Reagan

#10. I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now.

Samantha Shannon

#11. I have committed myself to developing your gift- but for you, Paige. Not for her.

Samantha Shannon

#12. [Politics] is the seedbed of social enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual. Name anything bad in man, and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with abundance.

Maxim Gorky

#13. His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers

Samantha Shannon

#14. AMBITION MAKES MORE TRUSTY SLAVES THAN NEED

Ben Jonson

#15. My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.

Andy Stanley

#16. He wouldn't have understood if I'd told him why I spend my time with criminals.
He didn't know that I belonged with them. More than I belonged with him.

Samantha Shannon

#17. They'd branded me like some kind of animal.
Lower than an animal.
A number.

Samantha Shannon

#18. I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is ... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#19. Religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#20. I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.

Rhys Darby

#21. When my kids are happy, I am happy.

Kris Jenner

#22. When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

Milan Kundera

#23. You told me once that freedom was my right." I held his gaze. "Maybe you should do something with it.

Samantha Shannon