Moustapha Diakhate Quotes & Sayings

Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship - that of parent and child - begins entirely with a coincidence. The child is produced by whatever serendipity brought its parents together, and the fact that the child was born to its particular parents instead of to another couple is pure happenstance. Thus, children have no choice over the relationship that is most important to their existence.
By contrast, friends and lovers choose each other, but even these choices are reactions to whatever random coincidence made the resulting relationship possible. — Zack Love

To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it. — Michel Houellebecq

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is a God so holy, powerful, and present that when He revealed Himself to Ezekiel in the Old Testament and John in the New, both dropped like dead men. He is the magnificent One, full of splendor, beautiful beyond comprehension - the I Am That I Am throughout every generation. Whoever He was, He is. Who He was to them, He is to you. Start taking Him up on His Godness. When you have no idea what to believe Him for in a given situation, just believe Him to be huge. Come, holy God, and be Thyself. — Beth Moore

To live a life in perfect harmony, create true peace in your heart. — Debasish Mridha

In other words, it's the familiar hot sinking feeling experienced by everyone who has let the waves of their own anger throw them far up on the beach of retribution, leaving them, in the poetic language of the everyday, up shit creek. — Terry Pratchett

man lies to himself a lot. — G.I. Gurdjieff

It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them. — Alan Smith

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion. — James Carville

Leaving

He stood backlit
by windows full of winter,
a shade thrown over his face.
What a waste, I thought.
What relief. — Jameson Fitzpatrick

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice. — William Sloane Coffin

I'd been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life (and be thin and beautiful to boot). — Anne-Marie Slaughter

It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone. — Bobby Heenan

In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different. — Gary Jennings

The truth with reveal itself when man frees his mind, begins to ask questions, and learns to doubt. Especially the doubt in his religious beliefs, intuitions, and the things that he believes in and that are sacred. Virtue and right belief do not exist unless the mind examines itself. — Amany Al-Hallaq

It's good to see you girls spending time together," she says. "It's good to have a life that passes the Bechdel test. — Rainbow Rowell