Affonso African Quotes & Sayings

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide. — Nan Fairbrother

What am I?" she asked ...
"You are mine," he answered roughly, his forehead still on hers. — Carrie Ann Ryan

I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing. — Tamsin Greig

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world. — Diana Vreeland

Her mother could sail impervious through reversals and snubs that would have sunk another woman. But she was defenseless against her own thoughts — Carey Wallace

The 85 Percent Solution: Getting started is more important than becoming an expert. — Ramit Sethi

Everything- even me, and one day even Charlotte- must come to end. — Avery Williams

As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons. — Viktor E. Frankl

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence. — Charles Spurgeon

Great art makes of a cosmos one simple droplet, by which the world is slaked of a thirst it never knew it had.
Aldous Richards — A.H. Richards

Months later, when we went on our first date, I tried to seem put together, I wore a shawl she had given me. And her ring. I thought everything was behind me: death, and dying, and sickness. I didn't know I was changing my life - that I would have done anything, that what was left of me would become so ruthless to survive. — Ada Limon

I lose myself in a world that isn't mine and for a while, that's for the best. — Courtney Cole

In the future - 60-80 years from now, what would a historian of that time look back at as the one big thing that changed everything? — Osama A. Hashmi

In the biblical narrative, hierarchy enters human relationship as part of the curse, and begins with man's oppression of women - "your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you" (Genesis 3:16). But with Christ, hierarchal relationships are exposed for the sham that they are, as the last are made first, the first are made last, the poor are blessed, the meek inherit the earth, and the God of the universe takes the form of a slave. — Rachel Held Evans

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film. — April Pearson