Oyakhilome 10 Quotes & Sayings

(Jefferson's personal distaste for slavery must be put alongside the fact that he owned hundreds of slaves to the day he died). — Howard Zinn

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He looked so strange without his guns.
So wrong.
'Okay? Now that the numb-fuck apprentices have the guns and the master's unarmed, can we please go? If something big comes out of the bush at us, Roland, you can always throw your knife at it.'
'Oh, that,' he murmured. 'I almost forgot.' He took the knife from his purse and held it out, hilt first, to Eddie.
'This is ridiculous!' Eddie shouted.
'Life is ridiculous.'
'Yeah, put it on a postcard and send it to the fucking Reader's Digest.' Eddie jammed the knife into his belt and then looked defiantly at Roland. 'Now can we go?'
'There is one more thing,' Roland said.
'Weeping, creeping Jesus!'
The smile touched Roland's mouth again. 'Just joking,' he said.
Eddie's mouth dropped open. Beside him, Susannah began to laugh again. The sound rose, as musical as bells, in the morning stillness. — Stephen King

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures ... — Emily Carr

If fate is the law, then is fate also subject to that law? At some point we cannot escape naming responsibility. It's in our nature. Sometimes I think we are all like that myopic coiner at his press, taking the blind slugs one by one from the tray, all of us bent so jealously at our work, determined that not even chaos be outside of our own making. — Cormac McCarthy

Your so-called "self" is a composite superimposed on the activity of many competing subpersonalities or agents. What you perceive as your consciousness is a string of temporary heroes rising above those they have defeated. And so you seek out heroes in the common story of your race. — Paul McAuley

I have worked closely with my Democratic allies. Elijah Cummings is a good friend. — Jason Chaffetz

Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness to flow into lives. — David Simon

People don't think I'm big enough to be mean. I don't look big enough, but I am. — Brian Urlacher

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti. — Sally Brampton