Olasunkanmi Akanni Quotes & Sayings

If we are not willing to destroy the beauty we have created, we become slaves to it. — Moxie Mezcal

Doing evil to another person doesn't prove your love and loyalty to another person; it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark. — Shannon L. Alder

The analysis of our illustrations has taught us another incidental lesson. This is that, when we study the effects of various proposals, not merely on special groups in the short run, but on all groups in the long run, the conclusions we arrive at usually correspond with those of unsophisticated common sense. It would not occur to anyone unacquainted with the prevailing economic half-literacy that it is good to have windows broken and cities destroyed; that it is anything but waste to create needless public projects; that it is dangerous to let idle hordes of men return to work; that machines which increase the production of wealth and economize human effort are to be dreaded; that obstructions to free production and free consumption increase wealth; that a nation grows richer by forcing other nations to take its goods for less than they cost to produce; that saving is stupid or wicked and that squandering brings prosperity. — Henry Hazlitt

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment. — Diego Rivera

I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about. — Toyohiko Kagawa

I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that's how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, 'Here's the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write 'Let It Be.' — Brandon Flowers

I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely. — Daniel Quinn

Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak. — A.D. Posey

Welcome to hell, Ryler, a place where the evil thrive and the weak die. — Jessica Sorensen

But poaching was no longer a trickle; it had become a flood. — Jodi Picoult

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. — Henry David Thoreau

Evil is as direct a manifestation of the divine as good. — W. Somerset Maugham