Dioufs Quotes & Sayings

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. — Alfred Day Hershey

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy. — Graham Nash

We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant. — John Donne

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. — Polykarp Kusch

I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last. — Jodi Picoult

Every muscle in his body seemed to be crying out to him--- she thinks this is a date; don't lead her on. Yet in spite of this, Peter found himself saying, ' I like your hair — Charlie Lovett

The best way to reach your Goal is to say "NO" more than you say "YES — Todd Stocker

Then, all of a sudden, those pea-green lawns where the first scarlet poppies were flowering, those canary-yellow fields which striped the tawny hills sloping down to a sea full of azure glints, all seemed so trivial to me, so banal, so false, so much in contrast with Ayl's person, with Ayl's world, with Ayl's idea of beauty, that I realized her place could never have been out here. And I realized, with grief and fear, that I had remained out here, that I would never again be able to escape those gilded and silvered gleams, those little clouds that turned from pale blue to pink, those green leaves that yellowed every autumn, and that Ayl's perfect world was lost forever, so lost I couldn't even imagine it any more, and nothing was left that could remind me of it, even remotely, nothing except perhaps that cold wall of gray stone. — Italo Calvino

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. — Mary Wollstonecraft

It's very sad that Tanzania is a poor football country. If elected, I promise to put this country on the world football map. I will make sure we produce our own Okochas, El Hadji Dioufs and Zinedine Zidanes here. — Jakaya Kikwete

It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way. — Cynthia Lewis

To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents. — Galileo Galilei

Sometimes I thought I couldn't wait, but then I always could. Because she gave me so much else and everything she gave me was more than a thousand other girls could ever give. All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.
I don't know what she saw in me, you know?
But I could give her that much. — Dean Koontz

Sometimes friendship means not having to say anything. Thank yous and apologies can sometimes get lost, but that doesn't mean they're unexpressed," murmured Hermione. — Bex-chan