Nkokonjeru Quotes & Sayings

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it. — Henry Ward Beecher

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life. — Anthony Hopkins

Use a different approach to meet women than offering them a drink, stop insisting on dates that cost money, and show that you care for your woman by the way that you treat her, how you look at her, what you say to her, how you hold her, etc., instead of by buying her things. — W. Anton

Women! Whether human or divine, what man can ever truly understand them? — Debra Holland

If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts. — Rajiv Mehrotra

This aged economic system is out of date! — Severn Cullis-Suzuki

You have the subtlety of a wet fish slapping someone in the face. — Jessica Beck

Thankfully, the farmers understand my request that the children not be allowed to peer through the windows at me.
It would be alarming for them to see me with their dolls, to see me using the knife on their faces. There are some things children never should see. — Kate Bernheimer

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission. — J.C. Ryle

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. — Lupita Nyong'o

I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep. — Elizabeth Scott

Maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was — Sue Grafton

The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too. — Pras Michel

The army was kept in as good state of fitness as the funds would allow. — John Updike