Mati Diop Quotes & Sayings

On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen ... — Gabrielle Zevin

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling. — Erasmus Darwin

Here we say that life is a cliff, and you must never turn around and look back when you're climbing. — Paul Bowles

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling. — Jim Leach

Underneath my stiffened gown
Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin,
A basin in the midst of hedges grown
So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding,
But she guesses he is near,
And the sliding of the water
Seems the stroking of a dear
Hand upon her. — Amy Lowell

It's really important to me to go to church, which is sometimes tough when I get back from road trips late on Saturday night, but I try to make it a priority to go every week. — Jeremy Lin

We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us. — Ernest Holmes

I suppose that's because you have faith in the judicial system that will try us." "Yes. I have faith that we will be found guilty and that we will be shot." "Your faith will be rewarded." "Why? It hasn't been for the last few years. — Mark Helprin

Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree. — Myles Munroe

But the strength that remains, which is principally destructive, is the film's dialectical relationship to most of the other movies that we see, its capacity to make their most time-honored conventions seem tedious, shopworn, and unnecessary. This originality often seems to be driven by hatred and anger, emotions that are undervalued in more cowardly periods such as the present... — Jonathan Rosenbaum

It's so funny you judge me arrogant after I succeeded.
You didn't help me at all when I was so poor and needy. — Toba Beta

A man without God's discernment loses the peace of God. — Sunday Adelaja

The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes. — P.T. Barnum

The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people. — Marvin J. Ashton