Adeniji Adedeji Quotes & Sayings

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies. — Carl Sagan

Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners ... If they're really good, they don't hassle me. They let me wander around and think. Young hardware clerks have a lot of hubris. They think they can help you find anything ... Old hardware clerks have learned the hard way that nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another. — Neal Stephenson

I know a lot of young girls look up to me. I have a lot of fans. — Chantal Sutherland

How can you find the truth in the midst of noise, of chaos! If you want people not to find the truth, create noise, create disorder, create complexities and create confusion! Because simplicity and tranquillity are the paths leading to the truth! Where there is commotion, there is no thinking! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that. — Jim Wallis

Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character. — Henry Rollins

If you have time to watch TV, you have time to work on your dreams and change your life — Bruce Van Horn

Language does not make one an elite. — Irrfan Khan

I don't look down on them, but what can you do? If a man has only ever driven a rickshaw and never in his life held a book in his hand, then what can you expect from him? — Monica Ali

Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century. — James Victore

The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals together and see what happens, You get concentrated criminality, crime in the midst of punishment. — Anthony Burgess