Famuyiwa Oluyemisi Quotes & Sayings

The Universe loves a grateful person. The more you thank Life, the more Life will give you to be thankful for. — Louise Hay

When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. — Joyce Brothers

My city love me like Mac Dre in the Bay — Drake

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans. — Vin Scully

Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have worked out an array of complicated techniques so they often don't have to pay taxes at all ... The scale of sheer robbery by corporate power is enormous. — Noam Chomsky

I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice."

"Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move. — Jodi Picoult

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia. — Johnny Depp

There is a deep and natural craving in the human heart that can be satisfied nowhere except in God. Our being in this world is a test, a preparation for the deepest state of spiritual communion. But most of us, suppressing our deepest longings and disdaining God, seek satisfaction from this world. Such a path can lead only to despair. — Sundar Singh

Freedom includes the right to go to hell, and the right to tell others to do the same. — Steve Chapman

Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze. — Thomas Hardy

From the depths of her mind Stella's thoughts erupted with jealousy as the men nearby averted their gaze that had been focused on her to this new female attraction, her mind was pricked with feelings of inadequacy as it somersaulted through her body and she jolted in shock at the size of her breasts which were significantly larger than Stella's. — Jill Thrussell

Education, is not just simply the progress of school, it is having the ability and desire to learn on your own. — Rawley Kramer

May it always cost the head as long as it does not cost the heart — Ilse Aichinger

You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't. — K.J. Bishop

American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds. — Kenny Smith