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Mgg Quotes

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Margaret Atwood
“You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

Margaret Atwood
“I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices.”
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

Margaret Atwood
“Nobody is any authority of the fucks other people give.”
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

Agatha Christie
“For whom will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself, usually for the man she loves, always for her children.”
Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie
“Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there.”
Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

Michelle Obama
“I knew from my own life experience that when someone shows genuine interest in your learning and development, even if only for ten minutes in a busy day, it matters. It matters especially for women, for minorities, for anyone society is quick to overlook.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming

Amie Kaufman
“But I don't know, so I have to believe. Sometimes, it's easy, and sometimes it's hard.”
Amie Kaufman

Agatha Christie
“I've often noticed that once coincidences start happening they go on happening in the most extraordinary way.”
Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary

Bryan Stevenson
“But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.”
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

Agatha Christie
“We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.”
Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

Michelle Obama
“The lesson being that in life, you control what you can.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming

Michelle Obama
“I wasn't going to let one person's opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming

Agatha Christie
“It's the muddle-headed loyalty of friends and relations that makes a detective's life so difficult.”
Agatha Christie, 13 at Dinner

Bryan Stevenson
“Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.”
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

Jacqueline Kelly
“Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.”
Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Arundhati Roy
“Excitement Always Leads to Tears”
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Anne Ursu
“Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure.”
Anne Ursu, Breadcrumbs

Michelle Obama
Look how I'm managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I'm pulling this off?
Michelle Obama, Becoming

John L. Allen Jr.
“The real action in Catholicism is usually among its women.”
John L. Allen Jr., The Francis Miracle: Inside the Transformation of the Pope and the Church

John L. Allen Jr.
“Francis is also probably the last person you'd fear meeting in a dark alley, while Pell may be the one member of the College of Cardinals you'd want by your side if a fight broke out in a Roman wine bar.”
John L. Allen Jr., The Francis Miracle: Inside the Transformation of the Pope and the Church

Agatha Christie
“Old Francoise has the common idea as regards the English--that they are mad, and liable to do the most unaccountable things at any moment.”
Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links

“In Bell's view resistance was essential. He believed significant progress, if it ever came, would emerge from the ground up, assisted by a recognition by white people that black advancement served their own interests. "History gets made through confrontation. Nothing gets done without pushing.”
Peter Slevin, Michelle Obama: A Life

“Because the exponential distribution is so mathematically convenient, it is tempting to use it even when it is not appropriate.”
thomas anderson, Operating Systems: Principles and Practice

Ibram X. Kendi
“We know how to be racist. We know how to pretend to not be racist. Now let's know how to be antiracist.”
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi
“Wy is Ebonics broken English by English is not broken German? Why is Ebonics a dialect of English if English is not a dialect of Latin?”
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi
“She taught me that the power of the spoken word is in the power of the word spoken.”
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi
“I became a Black patriarch because my parents and the world around me did not strictly raise me to be a Black feminist.”
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Anne Ursu
“Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories.”
Anne Ursu, Breadcrumbs

Agatha Christie
“Drink up your wine,' ordered Poirot.”
Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

Lindsey Leavitt
“Industrialization, pollution, deforestation--basically all human activity--has lessened the amount of magic left in the world.”
Lindsey Leavitt, Princess for Hire