Modero Beach Quotes & Sayings

A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I once asked her if she was happy. "That depends on what I am able to get done today," she said, laughing. She told me that the completion of her daily tasks was the only thing she felt she had control over. They were a form of meditation, of salve. Kept busy, she had no time to ruminate and no time for opinions, certainly not feminist ones. I pressed her: "I mean, are you happy with your life, Rajima?" "I don't know," she said uncomfortably, as if she'd never really considered such a question. "When there is little you can do, you do what you can." Happiness for my grandmother seemed to be a verb rather than a noun. She had so little control over her own life. Yet she took control, out of thin air for herself, when she could. — Padma Lakshmi

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. — Michelangelo

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier — Sam Manekshaw

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it. — William Faulkner

Anger, like fire, is difficult to restrain. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao." I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words. — Sophie Kinsella

In life we all have choices. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

All I could think of was what a privilege it was to give my life away for love's sake. — Heidi Baker

There's no one who can teach you except yourself. Each of us needs to look at what our belief system really consists of. Look at the concepts that come across your mind and just notice what you believe. — Byron Katie

Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The poor morsel of food only whetted desire. — Mark Twain

Christ comes among us at Christmas: it is the perfect time for a personal encounter with the Lord. — Pope Francis

I had been in the gym training for many, many years, but I definitely stepped it up when it was time to get into shape to play 'Lights'. I began trying to live the life of a boxer, and that means everything that you would expect. — Holt McCallany

I have never wanted to punch a highway in the face as badly as I do right now. — Seanan McGuire