Nemoya Quotes & Sayings

On a personal level, to think in time is to accept the uncertainty of life as the necessary price of being alive. To rebel against the precariousness of life, to reject uncertainty, to adopt a zero tolerance to risk, to imagine that life can be organized to completely eliminate danger, is to think outside time. To be human is to live suspended between danger and opportunity. — Lee Smolin

No secondary, man-made text can replace or be allowed to subvert our allegiance to and knowledge of the Bible. — Kevin DeYoung

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. — Chief Seattle

I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean? — Miles Davis

What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines. — Taylor Ho Bynum

The world doesn't need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond. — Will.i.am

Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us. — Thomas Merton

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy. — Evgeny Morozov

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. — Joe Ryan

Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill. — Bill Simmons

My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains ... For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer. — Ma Rainey

By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we're more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was.Those are going to be the measures by which I look back and say whether I've been successful as president. — Barack Obama

There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible in its nature, itself the first visible, and that by which all things are seen, light represents to us Christ. Whose generation none can declare, but Who must shine upon us ere we can know aught aright, whether of things Divine or human. — Herman Melville

The more I grew as a human being, the better I became at my craft. — R.A. Dickey

Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.' — Megan Fox