Jamaa Quotes & Sayings

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. — Aristotle.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four. — Bernard Baruch

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed. — Benjamin Franklin

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work. — Kate Zambreno

Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands. — Vladimir Lenin

The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels! — John Irving

I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can't. I don't want to be used that way and I don't want to use you! Can't you understand that? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about what you actually do believe in, instead of when you say you're an atheist, and it's really just a statement of what you don't believe in. — Greg Graffin

This
final and long
longed-for job:
to be unhappy
without doing
evil. — Franz Wright

I say bad things happen. Sometimes it's because of the choices we make, and sometimes it's because of the choices other people make . . . and sometimes it just happens. — Patrick W. Carr

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration. — Van Morrison

Rare is he who will concede genius. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

We got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love. — James Frey

A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough. — Lisa Kleypas

We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth. — Al Gore