Barbara Demick Quotes
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
Barbara Demick
Quotes to Explore
At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
Eddie Perez
The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
G. Willow Wilson
If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
Carlos Alazraqui
I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
Zara Larsson
For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
Aaron Rodgers
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice
One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
H. P. Lovecraft
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
Yair Lapid
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J. B. Priestley
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen
In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
Aaron Lazar
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie