Mardina Wammack Quotes & Sayings

The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work. — David Levering Lewis

I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up taking an acting class almost just to get rid of an arts requirement, but I wound up in this wonderful acting class with this teacher named Alma Becker who really saved my life. I was just kind of this knucklehead kid from DC and I was in and out of trouble all of the time. I took a theatre class and she really discovered something in me and I absolutely fell in love with it. — Jon Bernthal

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion. — Vernon Howard

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing. — Barbara Cook

More than once at TechCrunch, we made AOL extremely uncomfortable with things that we wrote. But they never ordered us to write or not write about something because they understood that not only would we not comply, we'd write a post about the whole thing. — Michael Arrington

It rained cats and dogs non-stop at this wedding. Later during the reception, the rain stopped as the sun was setting, and the sky turned pink. The bride later said that this picture made the rainy day totally worth it! — Julie Roberts

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. — Diane Ackerman

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. — Leo Tolstoy

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation. — Stendhal

Let me tell you, though, my father never once cheated on his taxes. That's just how he is, a real old-fashioned straight arrow. — Haruki Murakami

The reason God knows the future is because he plans the future and accomplishes it. — John Piper

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it. — Garth Brooks

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. — Voltaire