Gachanja African Quotes & Sayings

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be. — Mike Tyson

Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible. — Cennino Cennini

The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil"; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act. — Tim Field

Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible. But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts. The keyword here is BLACKWHITE. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to BELIEVE that black is white, and more, to KNOW that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. — George Orwell

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time. — Aileen Wuornos

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter. — Francois Delsarte

Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me ! — Andre Bramble

You're allowed to have thoughts, she reminded herself. Just because others might scoff, that doesn't mean you won't anymore. — Lauren Myracle

This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls. — Bryan Islip