Professor Lumumba Quotes & Sayings

Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet ... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some ... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged. — Terry Pratchett

What I would really love to happen to me would be if I came upon an idea that would keep me busy until I die so I wouldn't have to go through the business of thinking up a new book. But I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life. — Philip Roth

As Pope Benedict XVI said in his address to the United Nations in April 2008, the language of rights is borrowed from the great Christian tradition, but if you cut off those Christian roots, you get all kinds of abuses, each claiming the postmodern high ground of victimhood but only succeeding in debasing the coinage of rights itself. — N. T. Wright

One aristocratic leader's club was known for, an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished. — Helen Vendler

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer. — Martin Luther

God forgets the past ... Imitate Him.. — Max Lucado

you are so brave & quiet i forget you are suffering. — Ernest Hemingway,

This is music's most spectacular conjuring trick. Far from dying, it is in a perpetual state of rebirth. — Howard Goodall

Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical. — Alice Cooper

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. — Thomas Paine

My life is about my journey, and your life is about your journey. You are completely unqualified to draw my map, and I am completely unqualified to draw yours. I hope you'll let me know all about the path you've found, so that I may judge it for myself against my own path, and have the freedom to choose between the two. But please don't try and drag me from my path on to yours, and I will be sure to return the favor. — Derek R. Audette

Hope is all that keeps us going sometimes, biscuit — Cassandra Clare

I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social. — Woody Allen