#tate

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#alone #books #change #copies #feel

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #gravitated #i #i think #interesting

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#contexts #discourse #fruitful #normal #requires

Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#charges #delivered #demands #flag #flags

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#army #character #i #i am #officer

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#ceasing #constant #constant state #even #god

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language. ↗

— John Pilger

#american #convinced #i #integrated #israel

If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#band #been #friends #guy #his

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#baseball #become #blacks #chicago #chicago cubs

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got