Kufuor Quotes & Sayings

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age. — John Agyekum Kufuor

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population. — John Agyekum Kufuor

I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing. — Maya Angelou

What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don't yet have? — Priscilla Shirer

My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery. — Melissa Rivers

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization. — John Agyekum Kufuor

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I haven't published a novel in six years; instead, I fill my departmental hours casting words of praise into the bureaucratic abyss. On multiple occasions, serving on awards committees, I was actually required to write LORs to myself. — Julie Schumacher

There are two ways of being happy: We may either diminish our wants or augment our means- either will do- the result in the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous or young and in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are very wise you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society. — Benjamin Franklin

In all aspects of life ... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor. — George Lakoff

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down. — Ray Davies

Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great. — Akiva Goldsman

There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know. — Steve V. Cypert

We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future. — John Kufuor

17For l it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil. — Anonymous

With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history. — John Agyekum Kufuor

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living. — John Agyekum Kufuor

It shall be an offence for any man, either a husband or other person of the male sex, married or otherwise, being over the age of twelve years, to throw any item of clothing having been worn by the said person for whatever length of time, upon the floor of any bathroom or any room adjacent to and connected to a bathroom, without good cause. — Alexander McCall Smith

I have to stop getting shot — Barry Lyga

Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff. — Robert Downey Jr.

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature'. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice. — Deborah Smith