Mphahlele View Quotes & Sayings

During these times immediately ahead, the world will need many trumpets to sound the clarion call. The world will need many voices to speak the words of truth and healing for which millions long. The world will need many hearts joined together in the work of the soul, and prepared to do the work of God. — Neale Donald Walsch

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved?
-Lena Kaligaris — Ann Brashares

...but youth was for making such mistakes. — Samantha Sotto

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine. — Dylan Moran

If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community. — Herbert V. Prochnow

Is this one addiction I can indulge?" Ty's eyes closed as soon as they made contact, and he turned his head to the side and sighed softly as he slid his arms around Zane. "At least it's not one that'll kill you," he answered flatly. Zane's mouth tipped up at the corners. He wasn't too sure he'd say that. — Madeleine Urban

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate. — Amy Tan

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done. — Lena Dunham

In the attempt to be "relevant" one may fall into syncretism, and in the effort to avoid syncretism one may become irrelevant. — Lesslie Newbigin

People don't work in a dotcom because they have to. There are many professions that don't require that sort of time. But people sign up because they want to make world-changing differences, to build something that affects millions of people. — Kevin Systrom

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. — Nicholas Sparks

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist. — Charlie Munger

And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow. — Matthew Arnold

We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. — Elie Wiesel

Because you're mine! — S.C. Stephens