Mokena Makeka Quotes & Sayings

There is a Japanese proverb that translates as 'the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. — Jim Korkis

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries. — Marshall McLuhan

I shook my head, thinking this girl has more issues than Vogue. — J.L. Weil

In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That's what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won't do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss. — Geoff Dyer

To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship ... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love. — Bertrand Russell

Hopes dance best on bald men's hair — E. E. Cummings

The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with multimillion-dollar films that depict people doing terrible things to each other. If you read newspapers, you have every right to believe that Bad Nasty Things compose 90 percent of the human experience. But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul. — Rob Brezsny

I want to sympathize, I do, but the love triangle is just too delicious. The determined rock star and the possessive billionaire. Rawr. — Sylvia Day

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy. — Mahatma Gandhi

The evil plan is most harmful to the planner — Homer

You cannot teach a poor person to be rich until they change their context. Teaching a person with poor or middle class person's context is a waste of time ... and it does annoy them. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us. — Mary E. Pearson

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial — Charles Spurgeon

When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them. — Dick Gregory

'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School. — Gail Carson Levine