Awori Yoruba Quotes & Sayings

By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience. — Kyriacos C. Markides

In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power. — Ann Aguirre

The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling. — George Nolfi

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed. — John Fowles

We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English. — Noam Chomsky

The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine. — Horace

Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit awhile in his unobtrusive company, practicing for solitude, sobering their minds in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Then maybe it's not a question of how different we are. Maybe I've been in a hurry my whole life to experience all the things I've done and seen for a reason."

"What reason?"

His head turned toward hers. "To share them with you. — Rhenna Morgan

Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility. — Alexandra Robbins

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading. — Annie Proulx

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. — Marilu Henner

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. — Tom Stoppard

You're reversing causality. Dreams don't trigger events-events trigger dreams; our experiences feed our minds. — Edgar Cantero