Akua Quotes & Sayings

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. — Mark Twain

Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it even while you're having it. — Dick Costolo

Trust a bloody angel to take four sentences and two Biblical references to say, 'bugger me, isn't there a lot of choice at Tesco. — Heide Goody

Akua rested her head against a rock, and did not speak until she heard the girls' soft and sleepy breaths floating about her like tiny butterflies. — Yaa Gyasi

Prayer was not a sacred or holy thing. It was not spoken plainly, in Twi or English. It need not be performed on the knees or with folded palms. For Akua, prayer was a frenzied chant, a language for those desires of the heart that even the mind did not recognize were there. — Yaa Gyasi

I like what I see in the mirror. I liked what I saw in the mirror before. It just didn't work in a bikini. And now it does. So I'm excited! — Jordin Sparks

Man is an everlack, an infinite withoutness, afloat on an apparently endless ocean of apparently endless indifference to individual things. Obscurely he sees catastrophes happening to other rafts, rafts that are too distant for him to determine whether they have other humans aboard, but too numerous and too identical for him to presume that they have not. — John Fowles

But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle. — Lena Dunham

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect. — Nile Rodgers

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off. — Claire Danes

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit. — John Selden

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant. — George Farquhar

44But I say, love your enemies!* Pray for those who persecute you! — Anonymous