Warsan Shire Quotes

And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

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• In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Running
  • Rest
  • Politics

• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • History
  • Help

• The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Hate
  • Now
  • Wait

• You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Great
  • Job

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Remember
  • Faith
  • Lose

• Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Littles
  • Rage
  • Fascism

• It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal in southern Africa, once resolved a dispute between two brothers about a land inheritance they were to share. Kruger's decision: let one brother divide the land, and let the other brother have first choice.

  

  Louis E. Boone
  • People
  • Wisdom
  • Decision

• America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Discovered
  • Hushed

• The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Real
  • Attention

• The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Reality

• About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Men
  • Exercise

• Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and layer of complex constituents, can we help but be reminded of the Land of Oz. Have we found the Emerald City? Is this what we were searching for? Is this the ultimate fabric of reality? Is this all there is?

  

  Walker Evans
  • Help
  • Reality
  • Science

• In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

  

  C.J. Sansom
  • Men
  • Healthy
  • Worship

• The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Doubt

• Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Children
  • Community
  • Should

• And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

  

  Warsan Shire
  • Should
  • Humans
  • Strange