Alhagie Njie Quotes & Sayings

As with the mountains, there'd been no deserts where I grew up, and though I'd gone on day hikes in a couple of them, I didn't really understand what deserts were. I'd taken them to be dry, hot, and sandy places full of snakes, scorpions, and cactuses. They were not that. They were that and also a bunch of other things. They were layered and complex and inexplicable and analogous to nothing. My new existence was beyond analogy, I realized on that second day on the trail. I was in entirely new terrain. — Cheryl Strayed

People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, wed have to help make it thunder. — Georg Buchner

His cloak was Lannister crimson, but his surcoat showed the ten purple mullets of his own House arrayed upon a yellow field. — George R R Martin

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard. — Kelly Ripa

I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change. — Ai-jen Poo

[T]he biblical creation story, like the creation stories of other cultures, communicates social and religious values and presents them as if they were universally valid. — Elaine Pagels

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. — Thomas Hobbes

No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light. — Wes Fesler

Even when I try to be good, I am bad. Even when I try to do right by you, I only hurt you. [ ... ] Even when I try to create, I destroy. — Nina G. Jones

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes! — Albert Hofmann

I was born with the ability to see in metaphor. — Mark Nepo

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death. — Mitch Albom