Makubwa Magazeti Quotes & Sayings

Obstacles must be overcome.
Problems must be solved.
Doubt must be resisted.
Fear must be defeated. — Matshona Dhliwayo

returned to the typewriter, angrily erasing and correcting each mistake she'd made, desperately wishing she could as easily wipe out her mental image of the man in her carriage house. — Barbara Delinsky

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order. — Sydney Brenner

Somewhere hell was freezing over and Satan was figure skating. — Lia Riley

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better. — Dan Bejar

Morning not only forgives, it forgets. — Marty Rubin

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. — Leo Rosten

Seek to create change in your life not because something is 'wrong' ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of 'who you are'. — Neale Donald Walsch

Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness. — Thomas Merton

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. — Thomas Jefferson

With one paw, trying the edges of the winter pond, finding its waters solid, he advances, nails sliding, still far from home. — Andre Alexis

One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was. — Justin Simien

He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn't remember. — Sara Sheridan

The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus. — Pat Martino