Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
-
I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
-
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
-
Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.
-
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
-
I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
-
Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.
-
In February 2016, Russia arrested seven alleged ISIS militants who were plotting attacks in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The group included Russians and Central Asians and a ringleader who had come from Turkey.
-
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
-
In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called 'Xombi,' published by Milestone Media.
-
I want to age with some dignity.
-
It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.
-
There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery. It's possible to achieve a state where you realize the truth of life and fear disappears, and a lot of people have reached that state, but next to none of them are on Earth. There's probably a few.
-
I don't want to be on the cover of Playboy or Vogue.
-
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
-
It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
-
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
-
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
-
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
-
I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don't I talk about race that often. I said it's because I'm a neurosurgeon. And she thought that was a strange response. And you say - I said, you see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.
-
The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.
-
And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.
-
Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.
