Minkisi Quotes & Sayings

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks. — Natalie Clifford Barney

Questioning anything within doubt,
will just bring mind to no certainty. — Toba Beta

I spend a lot of time with my children. I like to go to the country with them, where we can spend hours walking in the woods and talking. That's more important to me than anything else. — Stanley R. Jaffe

Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think. — Jack Welch

The need to call this thing "good" and this thing "bad," this thing "white" and this thing "black," was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else. — Yaa Gyasi

He thought about his son's stone flying across the yard, the youthful idea that you could toss away the future if
you didn't like it - and he realized, suddenly, what he needed to do. — Mitch Albom

..people do need some commandment to rule over them in our century, when god's ten have been virtually forgotten! the whole moral structure of our time rests on the eleventh commandment; and the journalist came to realize that thanks to a mysterious provision of history he is to become its administrator, gaining a power undreamed of by a hemingway or an orwell. — Milan Kundera

A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities. — Daphne Guinness

You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits. — Aaron Allston

There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning. — Cynthia Daignault

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace. — Margaret Atwood

My dad gave me a present once,' Nico said. 'It was a zombie.'
Reyna stared at him. 'What?'
'His name is Jules-Albert. He's French.'
'A ... French zombie? — Rick Riordan

Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise. When You were displeased by Noah's generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your favor, You caused the heavens to rain down fire and damnation. But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name! "All — Elie Wiesel

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can. — Rush D. Holt Jr.