Adeyinka Makinde Quotes & Sayings

With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray,
Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode;
But now all smiles, and now again all frowns,
She's constant only in inconstancy. — Ovid

Gabe, did you pray?'
'Sort of.'
'Me too. Do you believe?'
'No. Do you?'
'No.'
'I don't believe,' said Gabriel, 'But I have faith, if you know what I mean.'
'What in?'
'I don't know, life, carrying on, I suppose.'
'Yes. — Monica Ali

It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday. — Kano Jigoro

I do have the 'girl next door' image. — Cindy Margolis

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity. — Chester Bowles

Why wasn't I nicer to Alice? When she has been nothing but sweet to me? When I actually like her? I know I should say something to her, but before I can find the words, she's tooting her horn and disappearing down the street.
I wave until she turns the corner. And as I watch another person drive out of here to some better place, I understand exactly why I wasn't nicer. — Gayle Forman

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve. — Aminu Kano

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[ ... ].
The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself.
The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits.
The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself.
And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you. — Bertrand Russell

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot. — Corazon Aquino

God will never send anything your wayyou couldn't handle. — Tyga

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans. — J.K. Rowling

In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say 'Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!' To which I reply 'Well, why? It's already a book. — Orson Scott Card

If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Everything that happens in our life expands us and makes us more than we were before, including our ability to be happy and joyful. — Mark Susnow