Mbolekwa Quotes & Sayings

I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt. — Rachel Joyce

Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else. — J. Oswald Sanders

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. — Oscar Wilde

Austrian U-boat commander named Georg von Trapp, later to gain eternal renown when played by Christopher Plummer in the film The Sound of Music, fired two torpedoes into a large French cruiser, the Leon Gambetta. The ship sank in nine minutes, killing 684 sailors. "So that's what war looks like!" von Trapp wrote in a later memoir. He told his chief officer, "We are like highway men, sneaking up on an unsuspecting ship in such a cowardly fashion. — Erik Larson

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins. — Tara Brach

DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter — Tony Dungy

In my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country can be. In the face of war, you believe there can be peace. In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope. In the face of a politics that's shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long, you believe we can be one people, reaching for what's possible, building that more perfect union. — Barack Obama

Whether this desire for sex is moderate or not, it is usually called lust. — Baruch Spinoza