Warsan Shire Quotes

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

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• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Down

• Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • You
  • Ask
  • Teammates

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Family
  • May
  • Home

• I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Mind
  • Justice
  • Star

• Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Liberty

• I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • World
  • Family
  • Learn

• I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Fear
  • Try
  • Self

• 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

  

  Feist
  • Mind
  • End
  • Songwriting

• I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Process
  • Convinced
  • Terminal

• I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Believe
  • Clock
  • Legal

• From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Listen
  • Within
  • Unsaid

• A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.

  

  Quentin Crisp

• An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.

  

  William DeWitt Hyde
  • Circumstances
  • Equipment

• People are always looking into the dark. We're afraid of what we might see. It might be the dark outside, it might be the dark of our own souls, but I figure it's better to get caught looking that to never know.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Dark
  • Afraid
  • Souls

• Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

  

  John Major
  • Mind
  • Pretty
  • Peace

• Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism that America had no choice but to pursue.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • America
  • Mistake

• It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Soul
  • Mistake
  • Judge

• Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

  

  Warsan Shire
  • Peace
  • Mistake
  • Making