Purple Hibiscus Amaka Quotes

#1. When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

Thomas Friedman

#2. A pen is neither good nor bad. It's what you do with it that makes it a weapon of war or a tool of peace.
Likewise, love is neither good nor bad. It's what you do with it that makes it the ultimate punishment or the greatest reward.

Lilly Mance

#3. The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.

Rory McIlroy

#4. It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them with a loving caress in his voice?

J.K. Rowling

#5. I am anger reborn and frustration unjustified. I am brutal hate and cold, dead winter. I am turning, tumbling in despair and there is no light, no warmth, no world, no heart.

Karina Halle

#6. Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.

Shari Arison

#7. Bad beliefs make bad behavior.

Warren Akin Candler

#8. I think that man was half-right. He is better off out of the game - but the game may not be better off without him. A man should not exist for himself alone. Life made an investment in him, and that investment was not paid off.

Piers Anthony

#9. I thought of that merry face, the flippant laughter, the female that did not care who approved. Perhaps because she had seen the ugliest her kind had to offer. And had survived.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do.
Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)

Marie Forleo

#11. If you want to know your true nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time, until the secret of your being stands revealed.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

#12. Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston.

Thomas Menino

#13. Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality.

Emily Carr

#14. External sources of positive energy and motivation will exhaust, unless we have our captive generation of positive energy.The only sustainable source of positive energy is our thoughts.

Sukant Ratnakar

#15. So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

Thom Yorke