Papa Doc Duvalier Quotes & Sayings

The last four Odu represent the human desire to connect with spirit to experience that from which we come and that towards which we go. Otura gives us the mystic vision from spirit that enables us to imagine a better life. — Fa'lokun Fatunmbi

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal. — Al Goldstein

She stared up into the beauty of his green eyes, and for a moment she saw everything there, all the pieces of his heart that she remembered so vividly, all the smiles and unspoken words she had earned since meeting him three months earlier. — Charlie N. Holmberg

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked.
He looked at me as if I were stupid.
'You die, of course. That's what deadly means. — Douglas Adams

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else. — Adam Arkin

If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the people who stayed. Always worrying about the safety of their children. — Joan Lingard

The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses. — Amit Abraham

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. — Zhang Yimou

If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude? — Idries Shah

The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable behavior for just that character, even when the character's action is, as sometimes happens, something that came as a surprise to the writer himself. We must understand, and the writer before us must understand, more than we know about the character; otherwise neither the writer nor the reader after him could feel confident of the character's behavior when the character acts freely. — John Gardner

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be. — Amanda Lindhout

For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened. — Larry Lucchino