Desmonds Old African Quotes & Sayings

I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything. — Vincent Van Gogh

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough. — Plato

Oleg Bard: I understand, but by virtue of that power of imagination which, according to [Georgi] Plekhanov, is granted to Marxists, I can already see as through a prism, so to speak, the triumph of your class as symbolized by your sublime, ravishing, elegant, and class-conscious wedding! — Vladimir Mayakovsky

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. — G.K. Chesterton

Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story. — Jacqui Stedmon

Boeing is working on an invisible fighter jet so nobody can see who's flying it. Didn't George Bush fly this in the National Guard, I believe? — Craig Kilborn

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge. — Jack London

Driving home, it's all I can do to keep from crying. Time's come, time's gone, time's never returning, I say to myself. What's here in front of me is all I've got, I decide, and as I drive my car through the blowing snow it doesn't seem like much, except for the kindness that I've just exchanged with an old lady, so I concentrate on that. — Russell Banks

Our Web sites and our e-mail lists are the two things that we control. — Teresa Medeiros

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass ... to stand up against such social evils — Kailash Satyarthi

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class. — David Harvey