Amoabeng Dacosta Quotes & Sayings

We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment. — Henry David Thoreau

Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed. — Ken Blanchard

If security guards aren't allowed to carry guns, I don't have to obey their made up rules. — Daniel Tosh

Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother's shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the party leave. First, two men she had not seen before: one tall, one short and dark. They drove off in a small green van. No one waved to them, she noticed, or even said goodbye. Next, her father left in his own car; lastly a blond, good-looking man and a short fat one in an enormous overcoat like a pony blanket made their way to a sports car parked under the beech trees. For a moment she really thought there must be something wrong with the fat one, he followed so slowly and so painfully. Then, seeing the handsome man hold the car door for him, he seemed to wake, and hurried forward with a lumpy skip. Unaccountably, this gesture upset her afresh. A storm of sorrow seized her and her mother could not console her. — John Le Carre

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. — Mike Wallace

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers. — Desmond Tutu

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda ... You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. — Marshall McLuhan

At fifty-seven, I felt old. Now, at seventy-four, I feel much younger than I did then. — Paul Auster

One proton of faith, three electrons of humility, a neutron of compassion and a bond of honesty," Robert said, winking at his daughter. "What's that?" Cora frowned, confused. Maggie laughed. "That, according to your father, is the molecular structure of love. — Menna Van Praag

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it. — Geraldine Brooks

Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing. — George Bernard Shaw

What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly! — Marly Youmans