Mwingira Quotes & Sayings

Compassion. Love. It was not civilization that birthed these gentle gifts - though its followers might claim otherwise. Nor was civilization the sweetest garden for such things to blossom in - though those trapped within it might imagine it so. No, as far as [Karsa] could see, civilization was a madman's mechanism that, for all its good intentions, ended up ensnaring the gentle gifts, stifling them, leaving them to wander mazes only to die alone and in the dark. — Steven Erikson

I can't believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can't believe I set foot on the same stage, and it's going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it's going to be a video. — Brandy Norwood

People jeopardize their lives for the sake of making the moment livable. Nothing sways them from the habit - not illness, not the sacrifice of love and relationship, not the loss of all earthly goods, not the crushing of their dignity, not the fear of dying. The drive is that relentless. — Gabor Mate

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg. — Jared Taylor

Oh, Atticus," it says soft, and the softness is scarier than the rest in its sorrow. "I'd have done anything you asked. I'd have been your sea and sky. — Leah Bobet

Now she had tasted love she felt that to lose it would mean that she would spend the rest of her life trying to capture just a tiny bit of what she had right here and now." p70 — Claire Upton

No matter how much you're expecting it, it's still unexpected when it comes. — Jason McAteer

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness. — Herman Koch

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways. — Niccolo Machiavelli

And you hate me. "For something I didn't do and something you didn't see. Hate — Carlyle Toussaint

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. — Henry A. Kissinger

Ah! Paul, you could not go when you wished. Caesar must convoy you. Your Master would have you go to Rome under the protection of the eagles of your empire. God has servants everywhere: he can make Satan himself provide the body-guard for his faithful apostle's journey. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

humans will always act to preserve their own lives - except for the times when they don't. — Orson Scott Card

The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us. — Nirmala Srivastava