Mlungisi Kwini Quotes & Sayings

Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you can't own it. You can spend it, but you can't keep it. And once you've lost it, there is no getting it back. It's just gone. — Allison DuBois

Let's all put our weapons down," Piper said. "Coach, you first." Hedge clenched his jaw. "Just one thwack?" "No," Piper said. "What about a compromise? I'll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I'll apologize." "No!" Piper insisted. "Meh." Coach Hedge lowered his club. — Rick Riordan

A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom. — Ayn Rand

Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills. — Richard Hammond

I called Hawk on his cell phone. "Where are you?" I said. "Not your business," he said. "What are you doing." "Very not your business," he said. "Oh that," I said. — Robert B. Parker

I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion. — John Legend

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. — John Le Carre

We forgive not because it's easy or the right thing to do, but that the choice to forgive is in itself powerful. It's an affirmation, a willingness to take life on life's terms. And a privilege that no one can take from you. It — Kathleen Tessaro

And then, while she was making them some orangeade, suddenly, just as when the reflector of a lamp that is badly fitted begins by casting all round an object, on the wall beyond it, huge and fantastic shadows which, in time, contract and are lost in the shadow of the object itself, all the terrible and disturbing ideas which he had formed of Odette melted away and vanished in the charming creature who stood there before his eyes. — Marcel Proust

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power. — Robert Shea

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes. — Robert Genn

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them. — Benjamin Franklin

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life. — Gary Oldman

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes. — Baltasar Gracian

To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute