Gbolahan Ogunbayo Quotes & Sayings

I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda. — Barney Frank

Luck is a fickle creature. She loves
many, but is faithful to none. — Karen Hawkins

Newcastle are absolutely besotted by injuries — Mark Lawrenson

Too much thinking leads to paralysis by analysis. — Robert Herjavec

The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Mr. Avery sat on the porch every — Harper Lee

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times. — Gary Snyder

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing. — Stephen Rea

I love being in the gym. — Scott Brooks

Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror. — Pietros Maneos

What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone. — T. Grassan

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I say that many of these heresies, independently of the doctrines they assert, encounter success among the simple because they suggest to such people the possibility of a different life. I say that very often the simple do not know much about doctrine. I say that often hordes of simple people have confused Catharist preaching with that of the Patarines, and these together with that of the Spirituals. The life of the simple, Abo, is not illuminated by learning and by the lively sense of distinctions that makes us wise. And it is haunted by illness and poverty, tongue-tied by ignorance. Joining a heretical group, for many of them, is often only another way of shouting their own despair. You may burn a cardinal's house because you want to perfect the life of the clergy, but also because you believe that the hell he preaches does not exist. — Umberto Eco

Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship. — Neil Postman