Habiba Akumu Quotes & Sayings

I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.( ... ) You can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does ( ... ) Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind ( ... ) Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was - and where he was. For it is those things -and only those things - that made him what he was. ( ... ) You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are. — Dale Carnegie

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil. — Seth Grahame-Smith

How vain are all these Glories, all our Pains,
Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty gains:
That Men may say, when we the Front-box grace,
Behold the first in Virtue, as in Face! — Alexander Pope

You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't. — Ellyn Bache

Not even a thing, Jenna. You need something and I have it to give, I will, every damn time. You hear me? — Laura Kaye

The first day of kindergarten when the little boy in a blue polo shirt had sat next to me and told me he'd be my friend when I couldn't stop crying after my dad had dropped me off. The boy who'd brought me a tray of brownies, a stack of movies, and sat with me on the couch all week after I broke my leg in fifth grade. The boy who'd blushed whenever I talked to him or looked his way when we became teenagers. The same boy who made it his business to make sure all the other boys treated me right. — Nicole Williams

And my guts were full of shame, because I hadn't even thought of him that day, not when I put on my stockings or my hat, not when I marched into a taxi and told him to take me to Heliotrope Station, not when I bought my ticket for one. I just wanted to go. Which meant I was a little photograph of her, after all. I kissed him, to make it better. We liked kissing. We'd discovered it together. We'd discussed it and we were fairly certain no one in the world did it as well as we did. — Catherynne M Valente

My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York. — Mike McCue

The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows. — Colin Ward

Hello I'm Edward and you are? Bella sorry I didn't get a chance to introduce myself last week. — Stephenie Meyer

I've never been a big gore guy. — Jon Bernthal

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins