Djongoma Quotes & Sayings

Some people should not be allowed to see beyond your surface. Seeing your vulnerability is a privilege, not meant for everyone. — Yasmin Mogahed

Remember how you asked me where would I like to live best, the country or the city?"
"And you said ... "
"And I said I wanted to live in the country and in the city both? — Sylvia Plath

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else. — Napoleon Hill

Take all self-determination from a man's life, and all that is left for him to do is complain. — Robin Hobb

The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so. (The proviso is essential, because measures which arouse serious resentment are seldom advantageous, whatever merits they may have otherwise.) The power of the politician, in a democracy, depends upon his adopting the opinions which seem right to the average man. It is useless to urge that politicians ought to be high-minded enough to advocate what enlightened opinion considers good, because if they do they are swept aside for others. — Bertrand Russell

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. — Arthur Conan Doyle

How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners! — John Flavel

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously. — Alton Brown

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else. — Sean Connery