Kazeem Alli Quotes & Sayings

On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction ... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either. — John Calvin

Psychological studies have recently shown that adversity can be a more powerful motivator than support. Successful people often remember being told that they could not do what they have, in fact, done brilliantly. Stubbornness drove them. Their parents or teachers have told them they will never make any money, or that they will never get a college degree, or that they will never marry and have children. The urge to prove authority wrong has often spurred human beings to unusual success. — Susan Cheever

I imagine there are people out there who got a dog when what they wanted was a baby, but I wonder if there aren't other people who had a baby when all they really needed was a dog. — Ann Patchett

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. — George Jean Nathan

Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.
George Saunders
The Bookseller — C. Robert Cales

The walls you put between yourself and other people doesn't just keep them away, it also keeps God away. — Shannon L. Alder

If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time. — Janet Turpin Myers

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism. — Ernest Mandel