Kevwe Akpore Quotes & Sayings

"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." Ideals do not determine what we do to make a living in life; They govern what we become as we do it. — Joan D. Chittister

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal. — Leo Buscaglia

Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it's not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can't/shouldn't/won't do what we know we need to do. — Steven Pressfield

It's a little bit over the top. I feel the same in my head I guess. I was quite a paranoid person anyway, so it doesn't really feed well when people are looking at you. I'm not really in the right job. I don't like having my photo taken. I don't like the attention. — Robert Pattinson

One of your three mothers did the cooking? How traditional,Naomi said with a smirk. — James S.A. Corey

She holds out her hands in entreaty. Join me, she whispers, but she's moving backward, getting fainter ... disappearing before my eyes ... vanishing ... she's gone. No! I shout. No! But I have no voice. I have nothing. I'm mute. Mute ... again. — E.L. James

Everyone has his cross to bear. — Franz Kafka

The theory arrived neither full-blown, like an orphan on the doorstep, nor sharply defined, like a spike through a shoe; nor did it develop as would a photographic print, crisp images gradually emerging from a shadowy soup. Rather, it unwound like a turban, like a mummy bandage; started with the sudden loosening of a clasp, a scarab fastener, and then unraveled in awkward spirals from end to frazzled end. — Tom Robbins

For Caesar met failure each time he relied on the direct, and retrieved it each time he resorted to the indirect. — B.H. Liddell Hart

We were one thing. Whole. — Robin Hobb

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. — Robert Wilson