Mwithua Quotes & Sayings

They want me to contain the raging fires within me. They need me to appreciate glowing embers, to understand that even weak flames need to be managed with a lot of careful planning. — Jinat Rehana Begum

I am told by people all the time that they simply do not have time to read and listen to all the material they have purchased or subscribed to. But time is democratic and just. Everyone has the same amount. When I choose to read with my mid morning coffee break and you choose to blather about trivia with friends, when I choose to study for an hour sitting on my backyard deck at day's end but you choose to watch a TIVO'd American Idol episode, we reveal much. When someone says he does not have the time to apply himself to acquiring the know-how required to create sufficient value for his stated desires, he is a farmer surrounded by ripe fruit and vegetables, whole grains, and a herd of cattle on his own property who dies of starvation, unable to organize his time and discipline himself to eat. — Dan S. Kennedy

Research at NYU and elsewhere is underscoring just how blind the "us-vs-them" mind-set can make people when they try to process new political information. Once this partisanship mentality kicks in, the brain almost automatically pre-filters facts - even noncontroversial ones - that offend our political sensibilities. — Mary Katharine Ham

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time. — Michael Baden

Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow. — Je Tsongkhapa

I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough. — Jeanette Winterson

Not slumber, but sleep just this side of waking, where dreams fuse with reality. — Ellen Hopkins

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community. — Ron Fournier

Sure, it's simple writing for kids ... just as simple as bringing them up. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The main difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn't think he was a fighter pilot. — Evan Currie

You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read. — Geraldine McCaughrean

Money doesn't spend in hell, Wilkes. The devil deals in a different coin. — Laurell K. Hamilton

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church. — Gordon B. Hinckley