Folarin Alakija Quotes & Sayings

Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful. — Alicia Silverstone

Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appalled when I sold out and did something so bourgeois. I'd say, 'Come on, guys, with what I earn from this job, we can all go to Morocco.' — Christie Brinkley

I run my hand over my eyes again and move it to my open mouth then my chin, laughing into my palm. "She has me so completely, and the only thing I can compare it to is the way you said Alyssa hit your heart. Like there's nothing too crazy, too far, too much... — Ginger Scott

In the face of impermanence and death, it takes courage to love the things of this world and to believe that praising them is our noblest calling. — Joanna Macy

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses. — John Updike

In both our personal and professional lives, there are times when reality dictates that we must stand up and 'end' something. Either its time has passed, its season is over, or worse, continuing it would be destructive in some way. — Henry Cloud

Tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.
... the window rosy with anemic November light. — Lauren Slater

You may believe in God, but never forget - it's God who believes in you. Every morning that the sun rises and you get to rise? That's God saying He believes in you, that He believes in the story He's writing through you. He believes in you as a gift the world needs. — Ann Voskamp

The center will hold.
Will it, Sydney? I wondered.
Because I'm falling apart. — Richelle Mead

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind. — Luigi Pirandello

I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have lately got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual, destruction. — Andrew Jackson

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent. — Samuel Adams

In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older, the archaic, still subsist; culture can still do something to that nature and work at transforming that "referent." Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good. — Fredric Jameson

Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption. — David Goggins