Conkright Md Quotes & Sayings

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West. — Pankaj Mishra

If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies. — Henning Mankell

As a woman, for example, I live and work very much like a man. I take a lot of things from the man's world and I have to do that if I want to survive modern life. Conversely, men have to take things from the woman's world to survive. It's a very beautiful thing that you have to mold your own gender nowadays. But it's a very stressful thing for us. — Pernille Fischer Christensen

People often describe the journey of transsexual people as a passage through the sexes, from manhood to womanhood, from male to female, from boy to girl. — Janet Mock

Genetically, 99.9% of the makeup of all human beings is identical, but we spend most of our time focusing on our differences. It may now be time for us to focus on what binds us together, such as our shared concerns. — Wilford Welch

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am. — Oriana Fallaci

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. — George Santayana

Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa? — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

But, through it all, I continue to stand in the firmness of my foundation, and follow the light of the sun to my divine destiny — C.M. Krishack

Phoenix song is magical: it is reputed to increase the courage of the pure of heart and to strike fear into the heart of the impure. — J.K. Rowling

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress. — Jack Kemp

We have a choice to move ahead or allow ourselves to stay stuck in a rut. — Lisa A. Mininni

Americans consider the sidewalk an anonymous backstage space, whereas for the French it is the stage itself. — Edmund White