Mataifa Makubwa Quotes & Sayings

Satan can't steal your joy unless you let him. — Sarah Beth Lindberg

But I'm no good at apologizing. I always end up making it worse. I'll say, "I'm sorry," and I'll be all sweet, and then once I'm forgiven, I'll say, "But you really did start it. — Rainbow Rowell

I won't be a substitute for what you cannot have. Especially not if it is my sister's shadow you mean to place me in. — Kristen Callihan

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects. — Henry Ward Beecher

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor ... In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains. — George Bernard Shaw

Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered. — Melissa De La Cruz

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. — Mark Twain

Will holds his hand out for me. "Are you all in?" he asks. This man, this man, this man. What a stupid question. "I'm all in," I tell him, — Karina Halle

It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question. — Hugh Leonard

In a world where critical thinking skills are almost wholly absent, repetition effectively leapfrogs the cognitive portion of the brain. It helps something get processed as truth. We used to call it unsubstantiated buy-in. Belief without evidence. It only works in a society where thinking for one's self is discouraged. That's how we lost our country. — Laura Bynum

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different. — Annie E. Clark

If I could say it, I would not have to dance it. — Isadora Duncan