Ezekiel Mphahlele Quotes & Sayings

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined. — David Ricardo

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have. — Diane Abbott

There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008. — Tyson Fury

Most of my education has been around food. — Marcus Samuelsson

Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage. — Ibn Hazm

The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality. — Stephen C. Meyer

If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it. — Dan Rice

He had never held any illusions that he would change the whole world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he had always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile course. And — R.A. Salvatore

The great majority of the Senate of the United States ... somewhere around 80 percent ... are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult. — J. William Fulbright

You just have to look hard. Then you'll find what you're after.
It sounded almost as if he were trying to help her in her search for the unique, awkward magic of the place. And she realized he must have thought the same, the first time he ever drove along this road to nowhere, maybe every time he returned. Even today. Maybe everyone, in the face of this void, was searching for something to cling to. Alessandro perhaps even a little more than other people. In the last few minutes she'd discovered more thoughtfulness in him than she'd have thought possible, more desire for answers. Thinking this, it was difficult to look away from him and turn her eyes on what lay ahead of them again. — Kai Meyer

As you see something that yo want to shot and it's bearing down on you, it's important to start framing long before the subject gets close to you. The light will reveal itself possibly long before you want to take the image, but you have to wait until the picture comes to you, and if you've been anticipating carefully when the subject will be in position, the background will have been figured out in advance. — Jay Maisel

But the scent of the good is blown against the wind:
A good man perfumes all directions. — Anonymous

Hope - meaning when everything goes wrong and you are all but lost. Hope brings you back up on your feet and gives you the strength to charge forward. — Melina Turner

The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state ... I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important. — Avigdor Lieberman

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers. — Judith Martin