Ndayi Quotes & Sayings

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe. — David Gilmour

As attentive readers may have noted, the standard narrative of heterosexual interaction boils down to prostitution: a woman exchanges her sexual services for access to resources. Maybe mythic resonance explains part of the huge box-office appeal of a film like Pretty Woman, where Richard Gere's character trades access to his wealth in exchange for what Julia Roberts's character has to offer (she plays a hooker with a heart of gold, if you missed it). Please note that what she's got to offer is limited to the aforementioned heart of gold, a smile as big as Texas, a pair of long, lovely legs, and the solemn promise that they'll open only for him from now on. The genius of Pretty Woman lies in making explicit what's been implicit in hundreds of films and books. According to this theory, women have evolved to unthinkingly and unashamedly exchange erotic pleasure for access to a man's wealth, protection, status, and other treasures likely to benefit her and her children. — Christopher Ryan

For Your word has given me life. — Anonymous

What I've learned only recently is that all of this opportunity came at a tremendous cost. You see, Xers and millennials are the product of the largest divorce generation in history (yeah, I'm talking about you, Boomers). It's obvious how clueless I was even with my stable background, and here my peers were growing up in broken homes. Many of them grew up without dads. — Lisa Anderson

One cannot guess the real difficulties of a problem before having solved it. — Carl Ludwig Siegel

When I go into the studio - it [words] has to sound the way I heard it in my head. So that's probably one of the biggest things that separates me when I'm working in the studio - just how I hear certain things. — Kendrick Lamar

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams. — Steve Maraboli

A child can do nothing in his weakness. A man can do much.' — Robert K. Massie

Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the poverty line just needs to shape up or be shipped out, you know? — Zach Braff

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you. — John Fowles

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end. — Blaise Pascal

The virus of irony is as widespread in California as herpes, and once you're infected with it, it lives in your brain forever. — Neal Stephenson

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement?
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was. — Virginia Woolf

In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which has been reserved to the several States, and on the other, the share of power which has been given to the Union, it is evident that the Federal legislators entertained very clear and accurate notions respecting the centralization of government. The United States form not only a republic, but a confederation; yet the national authority is more centralized there than it was in several of the absolute monarchies of Europe ... — Alexis De Tocqueville