Morenike Fajemisin Quotes & Sayings

'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did he say 'strive'? Because it is not possible for us to become holy and to be saints in an hour! We must therefore progress from modest beginnings toward holiness and purity. Even were we to spend a thousand years in this life we should never perfectly attain it. Rather we must always struggle for it every day, as if mere beginners. — Symeon The New Theologian

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful. — John Jay Chapman

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out. — Sigourney Weaver

Don't interrupt a man when he's giving himself hell. — Elmore Leonard

John Barrymore was a serious actor who did a great deal of research for all his parts, until, I guess, he was around 50. Then he started drinking heavily ... So he drank himself to death. It took him 10 years. — John Carradine

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like. — Rachel McAdams

I dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger's kin.
I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator's name.
I dreamed
and this dream was the finest
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you. — Clive Barker

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. — Mason Cooley

Sugar got her beauty from her mama, was Theo's first impression, but this woman did not strike him as having a heart of gold. She looked rich and mean, the opposite of his own mother, and he felt proud that Sugar had turned out the way she had despite that. — Sarah-Kate Lynch

I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace. — Richard Pryor

We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information. — Tyga

I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything. — Debbi Fields

The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends" — Benjamin Franklin

If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess. — Paul Tudor Jones

I'm shooting a commercial for safe sex. How ironic. Because I don't have that. — Tila Tequila