Festus Mogae Quotes & Sayings

It was easy to figure out how people ought to behave out in the world if you never went out in the world yourself. — Anna Quindlen

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening. — Emma Thompson

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful. — Pierre Curie

For the Mongols, the lifestyle of the peasant seemed incomprehensible. The Jurched territory was filled with so many people and yet so few animals; this was a stark contrast to Mongolia, where there were normally five to ten animals for each human. To the Mongols, the farmers' fields were just grasslands, as were the gardens, and the peasants were like grazing animals rather than real humans who ate meat. The Mongols referred to these grass-eating people with the same terminology that they used for cows and goats. The masses of peasants were just so many herds, and when the soldiers went out to round up their people or to drive them away, they did so with the same terminology, precision, and emotion used in rounding up yaks. — Jack Weatherford

My mother used to say the more lost you are, the later it got, the more you had invested in not being lost. That's why people who are lost so often keep heading in the same direction. — Ann Patchett

This form, this face, this life living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken, the awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships. — T. S. Eliot

When I walk into a room that is all white and all male, I'm sitting on the outside of that club. That's sometimes an intimidating experience. But I think that everywhere that I've gotten is because I've worked hard. I have the experience, I have the credentials - I continue not to take any of that for granted. — Helene D. Gayle

Who that prohibits two people who have different views about God to love each other? — CG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=

Man desires, woman is desired. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die. — Jean De La Bruyere