Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Quotes & Sayings

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human. — David D. Burns

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.- — Seneca The Younger

You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic. — Idries Shah

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life. — Susan Rothenberg

I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship. — Joanna Lumley

Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself — Norman Vincent Peale

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical. — Edie Brickell

The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that as one of our national assets and one of the things that makes America strong. — Gerald Chertavian

Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk — Christopher Moore

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility. — Jesse Jackson

Some people hear the voice of God in their dreams or through prayer or meditation. For me, God is truly in the details - the details found in the connections between the living things on the planet all working together to maintain the atmosphere and the soil. — Timothy Goodwin

Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves. — Mary Pipher

The irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it. — Robertson Davies