Sisonke Online Quotes

#1. Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

Stephen Crane

#2. I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

Beth Gutcheon

#3. You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.

Donnie Wahlberg

#4. I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

Benicio Del Toro

#5. He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#6. You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

Shirley Henderson

#7. Their nasty whispering made me angry. They had a neat way of tucking their point inside something softseeming and neighborly. The cutting edge was hidden in a joke or a piece of advice. It was like being sliced by a tiny blade hidden in a goose feather; it took a moment to realize the wound.

Ananda Braxton-Smith

#8. From the first extortion he had accepted, from the first directive he had obeyed, he had given them cause to believe that reality was a thing to be cheated, that one could demand the irrational and someone somehow would provide it.

Ayn Rand

#9. I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.

Paula Hawkins

#10. Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.

Rose Wilder Lane

#11. There is beauty that soothes like the warm kiss of the spring sun upon the cheek, and then there is beauty that terrifies, like the cry of Ozymandias, inviting despair.

Rick Yancey

#12. The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

Beth Moore

#13. It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words - are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?

Neal Stephenson

#14. United States of Europe will resemble USA, where the Poland state will be a lot more like Dakota than New York.

Przemek Skwirczynski