Mutuma Gichuru Quotes & Sayings

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence. — Herman Melville

Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else? — Tatjana Soli

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie. — Harry Reasoner

The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness - domains soaked in anxiety. — Irvin D. Yalom

Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead. So the belief that remembering is an ethical act is deep in our natures as humans, who know we are going to die, and who mourn those who in the normal course of things die before us - grandparents, parents, teachers, and older friends. Heartlessness and amnesia seem to go together. But history gives contradictory signals about the value of remembering in the much longer span of a collective history. There is simply too much injustice in the world. And too much remembering (of ancient grievances: Serbs, Irish) embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited. If the goal is having some space in which to live one's own life, then it is desirable that the account of specific injustices dissolve into a more general understanding that human beings everywhere do terrible things to one another. * * * P — Susan Sontag

What good is success if you're not willing to share it? — Karl Malone

People sometimes tell me that they're afraid to pursue seeing in the spirit because they think seeing all the demonic will overwhelm them. The truth is that it's much more terrifying to see how much God cares for us. It's a love that changes everything it touches. You can never go back once you've seen it. You'll forgive when you don't want to, give up anger before you're ready, and become friends with people you wouldn't have wanted to sit next to. All inspired by the profound revelation of his unyielding love. — Blake K. Healy

Though politicians are regarded as scum, government as a machine is held to be almost infallible. — Matt Ridley

We all walk around with a stone in our shoe, Younger. William T. — Alison McGhee

Here is the solitude from which you are absent.
It is raining. The sea wind is hunting stray gulls.
The water walks barefoot in the wet streets. From that tree the leaves complain as though they were sick.
White bee, even when you are gone, you live in my soul. You live again in time, slender and silent.
Ah, you who are silent. — Pablo Neruda

I've never had apple pie," I blurted out.
...
"You've never had apple pie?"
"No."
His brows rose. "Why?"
"I don't know. Just never tried it."
"That's so ... so un-American," he said, and I rolled my eyes. "Are you a terrorist? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think. — Marguerite Duras

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used-we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immmorality. — Linus Pauling

I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy. — Carnie Wilson

I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future — Ludwig Feuerbach