Mbande Shule Quotes & Sayings

It was the best advice Francie ever got. Truth and fancy were so mixed up in her mind
as they are in the mind of every lonely child
that she didn't know which was which. But Teacher made these two things clear to her. From that time on, she wrote little stories about things she saw and felt and did. In time, she got so that she was able to speak the truth with but a slight and instinctive coloring of the facts. — Betty Smith

I let him lead me outside and smiled when I saw Mason standing out on the front lawn. "Wow, you're giving me Mason? I'm pretty sure this is the best gift ever." Kash stopped walking and growled, and Mason burst out laughing. — Molly McAdams

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance. — Juliette Binoche

"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question. — Rajneesh

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart! — Giovanni Papini

Did I love them because they were the only boys in my life who consistently told me that I was beautiful? Probably. I loved The Ruperts for who they were, sure, but I mostly loved them for how they made me feel. Which was happy. The Ruperts made me happy. The simplest thing to be in the world. And the hardest. — Goldy Moldavsky

Remember this-you can't serve God and Money, but you can serve God with money. — Selwyn Hughes

Many criminologists believe that the source of the state's pacifying effect isn't just its brute coercive power but the trust it commands among the populace. After all, no state can post an informant in every pub and farmhouse to monitor breaches of the law, and those that try are totalitarian dictatorships that rule by fear, not civilized societies where people coexist through self-control and empathy. A Leviathan can civilize a society only when the citizens feel that its laws, law enforcement, and other social arrangements are legitimate, so that they don't fall back on their worst impulses as soon as Leviathan's back is turned. — Steven Pinker

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights. — Dick Gregory

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white. — Geraldo Rivera

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. — Logan Pearsall Smith

The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others. — Suzanne Curchod

But we have at last entered an era in which an increasing number of them believe their job is not to confine people's choices, in the name of safety, but to expand them, in the name of living a worthwhile life. — Atul Gawande

The human race, for all our facets and our institutional stupidity, is something I believe in. I admire our diversity, our stubbornness. The dynamic of conflict is one of our greatest traits. — Peter F. Hamilton

With my eyes closed and my memories open, I could almost feel his hands and mouth on my skin. — Jeri Smith-Ready