Ibuza Quotes & Sayings

True power is stillness within motion. — Laozi

In Ibuza sons help their father more than they help their mother. A mother's joy is only in the name. She worries over them,looks after them when they are small;but in the actual help on the farm ,the upholding of the family name,all belong to the father. — Buchi Emecheta

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people. — Edmund Husserl

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it. — Joe Torre

It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself. — Michael Ian Black

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation — Paul Strand

Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies ... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance. — Bill Bonner

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy. — Neal A. Maxwell

We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures. — P.G. Wodehouse

There are three dimensions to the peace that God offers to us through Christ: peace with God, peace with one another, and peace within ourselves. — Ken Sande

I still have my "Anarchy in the UK" 7" [ Sex Pistols single]. I'm sure it gave us a context to think about as well as a kind of kick in the ass. But we had all been playing for years at that point. — David First

I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition - which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing. — Christopher Hitchens

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate. — John Lydon

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15. — Robert Caro

Some men are made for doing violence. Some are meant for planning it. Then there are a special few whose talent is for taking the credit. — Joe Abercrombie

Do not be afraid; only believe" (Mark 5:36). — Stormie O'martian