Massai Africa Quotes & Sayings

Diane would occasionally find notes he had written. This had happened before. Sometimes it was actually happenstance, and sometimes the faceless old woman who secretly lives in their home would move his notes to where Diane would see them because the faceless old woman was bored and found the troubles of others interesting. Always Diane said she believed in his privacy and always she meant it, but also it always happened that she had read the entire note before she realized what it was. This was not a pattern that she was aware of, but it was one that Josh was very familiar with. — Joseph Fink

I thought it such a shame that our culture had not devised a way to defang old age. A sophisticated civilization wouldn't ridicule senility, it would elevate it, worship it, wouldn't it? We would train ourselves to see poetry in the nonsense of dementia, to actually look forward to becoming so untethered from the world. We'd make a ceremony of casting off our material goods and confining ourselves to a single room, leaving all our old, abandoned space to someone new, someone young, so that we could die alone, indifferent to our own decay and lost beauty. (127 — Timothy Schaffert

There's nothing efficient about innovation. — Simon Sinek

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different. — Donna Brazile

If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins ... and a little more on the large manufacturers of ... dangerous drugs ... , the public would be better served. — Russell B. Long

If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier. — Sandra Dodd

Warner laces his boots and sings the songs and marches the marches, acting less out of duty than out of a time worn desire to be dutiful. — Anthony Doerr