Temeka Deichman > Temeka's Quotes

“An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard.”
― Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“I knew Dad was concerned about my past associations. I was from the Trash Alley. It was my community. I hung out with thugs from the Frog Bottom, the Burns Bottoms, the Red Line, the S-Curve, the Sandfield, the Morning Side, and a bunch of other places that shall remain nameless. I knew all of the “Legends of the Hood”: Sin Man, Swap, Boo Boo, Emp-Man, Cookie Man, Shank, Polar Bear, Bae Willy, Bae Bruh, Skullhead Ned, Pimp, Crunch, and Goat Turd (just to name a few). I thought maybe Dad had summoned me as a “show and tell” for the kids in his neighborhood—the hardliner to scare those wayward suburban brats back into reality.”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

“It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? ”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

“I take life one day at a time. Today I choose to live.”
― Larry Godwin

“I didn’t think that you’d ever stop prattling on about those damn contracts.”
“Oh,” Susan said. “I suppose the layman might consider my detailed examination a tad boring.”
“Boring doesn’t begin to describe it,” Leana said. “Everyone took a snooze.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Double Cross

“Even some of Bill and Hillary’s harshest political critics admire their success as parents.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

“If only no one had to fight at all." He shakes his head.
"It does no good to dream.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.”
― Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country

“We argue instead that the richness of ideas is accompanied by a poverty of evidence, with essentially no explanation of how and why our linguistic computations and representations evolved.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Kingdom of Speech

“Neville recommends at the end of every day, before you go to sleep, to think through the events of the day. If any events or moments did not go the way you wanted, replay them in your mind in a way that thrills you. As you recreate those events in your mind exactly as you want, you are cleaning up your frequency from the day and you are emitting a new signal and frequency for tomorrow. You have intentionally created new picture for your future. It is never too late to change the pictures.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.”
― Terry Goodkind, Soul of the Fire