Afrikalilar Quotes & Sayings

They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage. But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to select the same number of wise and virtuous persons, who should be less capable of sitting in judgment on an erring woman's heart, and disentangling its mesh of good and evil, than the sages of rigid aspect towards whom Hester Prynne now turned her face. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde

I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do. — James K. Glassman

It might be different for people that are A-list actors, but a lot of us really look at what's offered to us and look for something that has some traction with other people. But, it's not like I read 100 scripts a week, and then pick and choose. Maybe some actors do. I certainly don't do that. — John Noble

As for ideology, the Hell with it.
All of it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The problem with martyrs is that they're all dead — Rosamund Hodge

He who serves the most, reaps the most, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. — Robin Sharma

Another female observer found Madison entertaining in private but "mute, cold, and repulsive" in company. — Ron Chernow

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. — Arthur Schopenhauer

All humans possess a built-in motivation to stay away from people with low or negative social value. In contrast, we may vastly improve our chances for survival and replication if we proactively seek out and form partnerships, both sexual and nonsexual, with those who offer us a high survival-and-replication value ... we are hardwired to seek alignment with them.
We may draw value from other people by influencing them to help us, but in a fair exchange, we must work to improve their chances as well. If one were to take too much from the other person, he or she would lower the other's chances of survival and replication. — Mystery

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun. — Garret Dillahunt

You are a creature of Divine Love connected at all times to Source. Divine Love is when you see God in everyone and everything you encounter. — Wayne Dyer

Disease is a fact but not a truth; it is an experience but not a reality. — Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

A landing place is a famous thing, but it is only enjoyable for a time by any mortal who deserves one at all. — Thomas Hughes

You've been drinking," she said shortly, and then added qualitatively, "a little. You know I loathe the smell of it. — F Scott Fitzgerald