Slavenka Drakulic Quotes

#1. I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.

Slavenka Drakulic

#2. All paradises have gates," Falchi said. "You'd wonder why God made Paradise with an exit if he didn't anticipate having to use it eventually.

Aleksandr Voinov

#3. Belief is half of healing. He

Patrick Ness

#4. I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

Roger Andrew Taylor

#5. The minute you think you have the right to belittle others because you think you're better than them is the same minute you've proven you're worse.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#6. This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

Virginia Woolf

#7. How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?

Slavenka Drakulic

#8. We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.

Alan Keyes

#9. I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do.

Ellen Pompeo

#10. She wonders what else she will have to give up and what is the minimum of things with which one can survive without losing the feeling that one is human?

Slavenka Drakulic

#11. He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

Nick Harkaway

#12. I'm just the product of my grandmother telling me for years she would see my name on the spines of books.

Hannah Brencher

#13. To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.

Slavenka Drakulic

#14. People want to project their own insecurities on others, but I refuse to allow them to put that on me. Just because you don't think that you could be the best in the world doesn't mean that I shouldn't have the confidence to believe I can do anything.

Ronda Rousey

#15. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

Seth Godin

#16. Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble.

Cinda Williams Chima

#17. This dude could read Pat the Bunnyand make it terrifying.

Diana Rowland