Akerele Quotes & Sayings

If we teach Truth but not the Source of Truth, we don't really succeed in passing on our faith. — Kevin Thoman

News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this. — Steven Magee

All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors. — Ivan Chtcheglov

I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics. — Lloyd Dorfman

To be punctual meant to exist as a point, meant that as well as to arrive somewhere on time. Constant existed as a point - could not imagine what it would, be like to exist in any other way. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

And so I believe that the sage I have mentioned must, a moment ago, have placed in your thoughts and on your tongue the appellation "The Knight of the Sorry Face", which is what I propose to call myself from now on; and to ensure that the title suits me all the better, I am resolved to have painted on my coat of arms, at the earliest opportunity, a very sorry face. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

And while she works on herself, moving ahead in her career, expanding her mind through books and art, and keeping her life fulfilled with hobbies, family, and good friends, she's waiting, waiting for that man who will remain poised, sharp, and attentive in the face of her past hurts, present insecurities, and future dreams. And that's what the Shit Test is meant to find - the man who is smart and sharp enough to make her insecurities feel like they're inconsequential or baseless; the man who will protect her - not necessarily from the outside world - she's a tough chick and can do that on her own - but from herself. — Olyvia Apple

I think South Africa has shown it can host such a big event as the World Cup, so why not hold the Olympics at some point in Africa? Maybe not just in one country but in a host of countries. — Jochen Zeitz

Violence is not just an abstract noun.....its a way of life. — Jean-Marc Akerele

In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination? — Martin Guevara Urbina

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another — George Carlin

Riots followed hunger like thunder follows lightning. — Gary A. Ballard

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example. — Albert Einstein

Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship. — Mitch Albom

Time doesn't heal, whatever they say. It's how we use the time that can heal. — J.D. Robb

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments. — David Keirsey