Malakal Quotes & Sayings

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page. — Elena Ferrante

I love Perth. It is my home, and no matter where I am in the world, Perth is where my heart is. — Kerry Stokes

If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough. — Tony Robbins

If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran — Virgil Goode

If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone. — John Cheever

I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things. — Vanilla Ice

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent. — Alan Garner

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport. — Allan Houston

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher

There's something solid and constant about trees." I said quietly. "They may change through the seasons, but they're always there. They're dependable. — Julianne Donaldson

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there. — Diane Paulus

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. — Abraham H. Maslow

It is by rugged paths like these they go That scale the heights of immortality, Unreached by those that falter here below. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people. — Will Rogers