Maaza Mengiste famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?
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We must not be anything other than what we are.
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A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.
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The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.
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The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.
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Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.
-- Maaza Mengiste
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Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging?
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I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.
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We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
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The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.
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I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.
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The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
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God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
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