G. Willow Wilson · 120 pages
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“There's this ayah from the Quran that my dad always quotes when he sees something bad on TV. A fire or a flood or a bombing. "Whoever kills one person, it is as if he has killed all of mankind... And whoever saves one person, it is as if he has saved all of mankind." When I was a little kid, that always made me feel better. Because no matter how bad things get there are always people who rush in to help. And according to my dad they are blessed.”
― G. Willow Wilson, quote from Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
“Good is not a thing you are. It's a thing you do.”
― G. Willow Wilson, quote from Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
“Who am I? It seems like an easy question. And then I realize... Maybe what I said to those cops wasn't a joke. Maybe the name belongs to whoever has the courage to fight.
And so I tell them.
I tell them who I am.”
― G. Willow Wilson, quote from Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
“We are faith. We speak all languages of beauty and hardship.”
― G. Willow Wilson, quote from Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
“Por fora, o recato em pessoa. Calma de semblante e retirada, parecendo a própria mansidão; por dentro, ardendo de desejo, “em fogo consumida”, como Oxum, seu orixá. Ah!, Dionísia, se soubesses como o fogo de Oxum queima as noites de tua comadre e seu corpo moreno, seu pelado ventre, lhe mandarias dar um banho de folhas ou um marido.”
― Jorge Amado, quote from Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
“All varieties of the producers' policy are advocated on the ground of their alleged ability to raise the party members' standard of living. Protectionism and economic self-sufficiency, labor union pressure and compulsion, labor legislation, minimum wage rates, public spending, credit expansion, subsidies, and other makeshifts are always recommended by their advocates as the most suitable or the only means to increase the real income of the people for whose votes they canvass. Every contemporary statesman or politician invariably tells his voters: My program will make you as affluent as conditions may permit, while my adversaries' program will bring you want and misery.”
― Ludwig von Mises, quote from Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
“Nothing is permanent in my mysterious world, even my moments of belief - Jenifer”
― Durgesh Satpathy, quote from Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
“They walked with some purpose, yet without particular hurry,”
― John Williams, quote from Butcher's Crossing
“But there is another statistic, much harder to measure, that I think is even more important and revealing: Does your society have more memories than dreams or more dreams than memories?”
― quote from The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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