Alioune Ndiaye Quotes & Sayings

Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together. — Willa Cather

but strangely enough, his eyebrows and eyebrows were intact. — Arkady Strugatsky

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. — Richard Dawkins

As to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings ... — Immanuel Kant

Let's try the library,' I tell him. 'We can find out anything there! — David McPhail

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters. — Publilius Syrus

I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits. — J.K. Rowling

The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. — Anonymous

On a reservation, Indian men who abandon their children are treated worse than white fathers who do the same thing. It's because white men have been doing that forever and Indian men have just learned how. That's how assimilation can work. — Sherman Alexie

Regrets will eat you alive if you let them. You gotta outrun them. Find something in the now. — Annabeth Albert

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself. — Michael Buble

...the world is full of peculiar — Anna Quindlen

I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else. — Matisyahu