Lordship Africa Quotes & Sayings

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely — Oliver Goldsmith

His mind remained freakishly pin-point sharp until his last days, but his body had shut-down a good six months before. He surprised his hospice doctor and nurses by clinging to life long after he should have expired. It was a fear of dying, driven by guilt over something he did early on. He was afraid of judgment day. His strict Catholic upbringing wreaked havoc in his brain and kept his will from preventing his body to die. — Stephen Joseph Mitskavich

And with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all. — Anton Chekhov

little cottage in a far-flung spot on the coast of Ireland is an international incident that leaves the family stranded and dependent on themselves for their survival. Facing starvation, — Susan Kiernan-Lewis

Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you translate a mythical story, or a doctrine out of the church, into practical action, it just remains incomprehensible. Rather like the rules of a board game which seem very sort of dull and complicated and incomprehensible until you pick up the dice and start to play, when everything falls into place. — Karen Armstrong

You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again. — Graydon Carter

Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and with traditional two-parent families. What children require is loving and attentive adults, not a particular family type. — Sandra Scarr

It was reality TV that convinced SILAS he would need to annihilate humanity in order to go on living. — Nick Cole

It's getting cold." "Yeah, I like it though." Sensing my discomfort he said, "Alan, it is what is. We just got to keep moving. Like sharks, right? We stop, we die. — Greg F. Gifune

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam. — Michael Caine

But they would be offering Krishna Consciousness, the highest and rarest gift, and intelligent people would gradually appreciate this, even if at first they scoffed. By — Dinatarini Devi

I shall be satisfied if young people who read this record of our lives and adventures should learn from it how admirably suited is the peaceful, industrious life of a cheerful and united family to the foundation of strong, pure, and manly character. — J.H. Stickney

Erich, they differ from us only in the limitations imposed upon them by stone, as opposed to iron and steel. — Torsten Krol

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued. — Esperanza Spalding