Osayande Lumumba Quotes & Sayings

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together. — Steve McConnell

Since his time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure. The tailor adapts the manikin as well as the clothes to his patron's wants. The tailor's object, in this volume, is to fit young men, in universities or elsewhere, to be men of the world, equipped for any emergency ; and the garment offered to them is meant to show the faults of the patchwork fitted on their fathers. — Henry Adams

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. — Arthur Smith

You can't take life too seriously. You just have to laugh your way through it. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity. — Sidney Poitier

To respond is positive, to react is negative. — Zig Ziglar

Amelia looked at the eggs-like sickly, jaundiced eyes-and thought of her own eggs, a handful left, old shrivelled like musty dried fruit where once they must have been bursting toward the light- — Kate Atkinson

Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier
it goes without saying
but less of a person. She was filled out by her fate. I actually think that this is quite rare, the capacity to become the whole shape of the accidents that happen to you. — Tessa Hadley

My instincts have never lied to me. — Tiger Woods

In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed. — Nicholas Of Cusa

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life. — Kylie Minogue

I want to bury my head in books like in pillows and breathe in stories like air. — Ksenia Anske

The key to getting out of the boat is hearing the voice of God. — Mark Batterson

I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands. — Lauren Bacall