Visted Ala Quotes

#1. I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively pursue that change.

Bob Filner

#2. I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#3. How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

Karl Kraus

#4. Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others

Gary Hopkins

#5. I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#6. Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.

Esther Peterson

#7. What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?

Joseph Heller

#8. I walk through the streets as if I was burning in some eternal bonfire.

Floriano Martins

#9. I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain a dialogue with other people, I guess, or, better still, with oneself, that is to say, one talks or mumbles to oneself.

Imre Kertesz