Njukiri Quotes & Sayings

However, all the methods of interventionism are doomed to failure. This means: the interventionist measures must needs result in conditions which from the point of view of their own advocates are more unsatisfactory than the previous state of affairs they were designed to alter. These policies are therefore contrary to purpose. — Ludwig Von Mises

But what is there in man older and deeper than the religious sentiment?
There is man himself; that is, volition and conscience, free-will and law, eternally antagonistic. Man is at war with himself: why?
"Man," say the theologians, "transgressed in the beginning; our race is guilty of an ancient offence. For this transgression humanity has fallen; error and ignorance have become its sustenance. Read history, you will find universal proof of this necessity for evil in the permanent misery of nations. Man suffers and always will suffer; his disease is hereditary and constitutional. Use palliatives, employ emollients; there is no remedy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties. — Megan Fox

There's an elderly woman fussing with the top of the cream pitcher, trying to get it open. Her purse sits on the counter, but as I approach, she picks up the handbag and anchors it to her side, crossing her arm over the strap.
"Oh, that pitcher can be tricky," I say. "Can I help?"
She thanks me and smiles when I hand her back the cream.
I'm sure she doesn't even realize she moved her purse when I got closer.
But I did. — Jodi Picoult

When I think of how many people in this world have it worse
than I do, I realize just how blessed I really am...
... and I have to give thanks ... — Shannan Lea

I was a militant. — Bill Ayers

Simple is good," he said. "I've lived through complicated. Complicated hurts. Simple sustains you. Complicated makes you hungry for simple. — Amy Lane

Perform at your best when your best is required. Your best is required each day. — John Wooden

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good. — John Shelby Spong

The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful — Gwyneth Lewis

I have always strived to do something different, to push myself. — Seal

There are lots of trips out there. It's even possible to become a conference groupie, going from one seminar to another and being a Beautiful Evolved Human Being until you start making the people around you want to throw up. — Michael Crichton