Ajala Quotes & Sayings

I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world ... — N. T. Wright

Mr. Rearden," said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, "if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down on his shoulders - what would you tell him to do?" "I ... don't know. What ... could he do? What would you tell him? — Ayn Rand

Well, at least I can spare myself the ordeal of a whole battery of personality tests. My personality is poor; that much is clear. — Susan Juby

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president? — Dick Cheney

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means - the only complete realist.15 — Tad R. Callister

I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane. — Dylan O'Brien

I've done a lot of work to get where I'm at, but I have to keep working. — Wiz Khalifa

You know, it doesn't happen that often that you have the crowd support behind you straightaway from the beginning of the match. — Kim Clijsters

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The trouble with the past is, it's never really over. Just keeps coming back and biting you in the ass. — James Whitfield Thomson

GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search. Every Seeker is Worthy of This Search. Strive To Redouble Your Efforts, So That Your Soul May Escape From This Material Prison. — Rumi

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. — Adrian Grenier

I love this country. I loved it the first time I came here, back in 1963. I love it because it's free. My mother escaped from Nazi Germany; the rest of her family never made it. The first thing Hitler did was take over the press and make it subservient to the government. Lenin did the same." Jasper had drunk a few glasses of wine, and as a result he was a shade more candid. "America is free because it has disrespectful newspapers and television shows to expose and shame presidents who fuck the Constitution up the ass." He raised his glass. "Here's to the free press. Here's to disrespect. And God bless America. — Ken Follett