Norman Washington Manley Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling - I don't think it's any of that - it's helpless ... it's absence of control - and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that - I have no use for it whatsoever.
[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.] — Toni Morrison

Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives. — Richard Holloway

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes. — Jeanette Winterson

Love is not weak, feeble or soft. Love is the positive force of life. Love is the cause of everything positive and good. — Rhonda Byrne

I've never minded finding out what others thought I didn't know. Titus Ray, Chapter 3 — Luana Ehrlich

Whether you're beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a
cage is still a cage, — Anne Bishop

Amos found what I'm pretty sure was the most expensive hooker I've ever seen. — James S.A. Corey

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland. — Vance Havner

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap. — Calvin Klein

Reality is for people who can't face drugs. — Laurence J. Peter

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. — Kahlil Gibran

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not. — Brian Lamb

Celebrate Life. Unless you celebrate each day of Life, you are not truly Living. Let each day be a Festival of Joy. - RVM — R.v.m.

It's all right- this isn't the end of it. Endings and beginnings are as different than exits and entrances. — Takuji Ichikawa

Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God. — John Piper