Adjaye Africa Quotes & Sayings

Do you have any idea how many doors I've knocked on to find you? — Colleen Hoover

A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation I was granted the favor to have one wish. "Do you wish for youth," said Mercury, "or for beauty, or power, or a long life; or do you wish for the most beautiful woman, or any other of the many fine things we have in our treasure trove? Choose, but only one thing!" For a moment I was at a loss. Then I addressed the gods in this wise: "Most honorable contemporaries, I choose one thing - that I may always have the laughs on my side." Not one god made answer, but all began to laugh. From this I concluded that my wish had been granted and thought that the gods knew how to express themselves with good taste: for it would surely have been inappropriate to answer gravely: your wish has been granted. — Soren Kierkegaard

Come on, you Do you want to live forever? — Carl Sandburg

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers. — Plato

The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms. — Antonin Scalia

In a way, going to Africa allowed me to see possibilities that sometimes seem impossible in certain conditions. It also allowed me to see opportunities for material strategies. I hate it when people think I went and got something [from Africa] and brought it here. It's more about how it affects the way in which I work and affects [my] creativity. — David Adjaye

Mistakes aren't life sentences they are life lessons. — Martha Lemasters

We were not made to eternally weep. — Countee Cullen

Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists. — Ann Coulter

Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment — David Adjaye

obsequious courting of the mob — Marcus Aurelius

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it is more debilitating by far to be filled with contempt for another. — The Arbinger Institute

And Tiny is saying, "If you can't trust your gut then what can you trust?"And I say, "You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly," which is true. Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does. — David Levithan