Temeka Welty > Temeka's Quotes

“Being a leading power couple means not only submitting to media scrutiny but also commanding coverage. To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being one member of a leading couple.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

“There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.”
― Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure.” Vince didn’t blink. “I have a condo there waiting for me. You’re welcome for tea. Now, give the order, Colonel.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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― Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War

“Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots

“A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“That of all the 'oracies (aristocracy and democracy included) hypocrisy is the most flourishing.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Monikins