Ginen Quotes & Sayings

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls. — Henry Ford

We are all here, all the powers of the Ginen lives for all the centuries that they have been in existence, and we all fight. We change when change is needed. We are a little different in each place that the Ginen have come to rest, and any one of is already many powers. No cancer can fell us all, no blight cover us completely. — Nalo Hopkinson

They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are the ones healing the Ginen story, fighting to destroy that cancerous trade in shiploads of African bodies that ever demands to be fed more sugar, more rum, more Nubian gold. — Nalo Hopkinson

We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are. — Michael Moorcock

You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same. — Fannie Flagg

Proper storage is about creating a home for something so that minimal effort is required to find it and put it away. — Geralin Thomas

Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. — Patrick Rothfuss

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest. — Jonathan Swift

Seek the coldness of the moon and ye shall find the heat of the sun. — C. G. Jung

It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it. — Desiree Rogers

Through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an "escape from time" comparable to the "emegence from time" effected by myths. ( ... ) Reading projects him out if his personal duration and incorporates him into other rythms, makes him live in another "history". — Mircea Eliade

Jenny, neither of us should make decisions based on fear whether we're together or apart. — Kim Teague

To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man. — Rajneesh

The biophilia hypothesis is not your run-of-the-mill Berkeley/Al Gore/Eat Your Spinach environmentalism. It does not appeal directly to our sense of stewardship or responsibility. It appeals to a much more base, and common, human proclivity: selfishness. It says, in effect, protect the environment because it will make you happy. For a country like the United States, with the word "happiness" in its founding document, you'd think environmentalists would have latched on to biophilia a long time ago. — Eric Weiner

Love is the absence of control and the presence of faith. And you won't truly be happy until you surrender to it. — Chelsea Fine

I've never been outside Heathrow so it will be exciting to see what London has to offer. I think I've only flown into Heathrow maybe twice. — Misty May-Treanor

For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways. — W. H. Auden