Paule Marshall Quotes

#1. Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

Paule Marshall

#2. But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.

Paule Marshall

#3. Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

Phil Ochs

#4. I've yet to see a correlation in my industry between great social media and great numbers.

Mickey Drexler

#5. A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

Van Jones

#6. We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Paulo Coelho

#7. Soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.

Charles Bukowski

#8. They may signify wealth, but they can actually mean so much more-like committment, family, and love. And there's nothing like a perfect diamond to remind you that you'll never be perfect - the truth is, all you can do is try.

Nicole Richie

#9. I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness ...

Paule Marshall

#10. [Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

Albert Bandura

#11. Every game has rules. Life's a game that has its respective rules; obey the rules, win the game!

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.

Paule Marshall

#13. Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Paule Marshall

#14. We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

Paule Marshall

#15. A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this man, Megan understood that.

Harlan Coben

#16. I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

Vanessa Hudgens

#17. My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen ... my mother and three or four of her friends ... told stories ... with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.

Paule Marshall

#18. A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

Paule Marshall

#19. I always thought I'd adopt - I have a dog but no children.

Perrey Reeves

#20. A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.

Paule Marshall

#21. I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

John Sladek

#22. You are the light to my darkness. My heart, my soul, and now my blood, will all be yours.

Lisa Kessler

#23. In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.

Robert Mueller