Osagie Emmanuel Quotes & Sayings

My father was in the coal and heating business, and he wanted me to take over his business, and I resented every moment of it. So I would never force my kids to do what I do. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

The spirit of Christmas is a sweet, internal peace that testifies of the power of kindness and charity. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper. — Joseph Epstein

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make. — Emile Hirsch

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together. — Jacob Bronowski

The truth is in the present moment. — Dani Shapiro

I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays. — Len Cariou

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra

I won't have you calling me Miss Tuttle. That's what the doc calls me. And the lady at the bank. One takes my temperature and the other my money. Friends don't take anything - they give. — Diane Lynn McGyver

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us. — Abraham Lincoln

What offends a great intellect in society is the equality of rights, leading to equality of pretensions, which everyone enjoys; while at the same time, inequality of capacity means a corresponding disparity of social power. So-called good society recognizes every kind of claim but that of intellect, which is a contraband article; and people are expected to exhibit an unlimited amount of patience towards every form of folly and stupidity, perversity and dullness; whilst personal merit has to beg pardon, as it were, for being present, or else conceal itself altogether. Intellectual superiority offends by its very existence, without any desire to do so. The — Arthur Schopenhauer