Puritys African Quotes & Sayings

But listen! Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear - and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed - stupid and mean.' Jake — Carson McCullers

Janeway enters from her office, which on the USS Voyager was called the captain's ready room, and walks slowly through the bridge, greeting each officer in turn. — Kate Mulgrew

You coming in here?" I asked.
"Afraid I'll gnaw on your stepmother? — Devon Monk

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that. — Paloma Faith

Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right. — Max Lucado

I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country. — J.R.D. Tata

Talk to yourself the way you'd talk to someone you love. Shush your inner bully. Be your own bestie. — Karen Salmansohn

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid. — Bill Gates

Focused men are painfully attractive. — Catherine Lowell

You know, I know I should be just as panicky as you about the filthy work - one wants to do nothing in the evenings, certainly not spread rotten books around & dredge for a 'line'. It must be like still being a student, with an essay to do after a week's drinking, only you haven't had the drinking. Quite clearly, to me, you aren't a voluntary worker, from the will: you do it by intuitive flashes, more like an act of creation, & when the flashes don't come, as of course they don't, especially when the excess energy of undergraduate days is gone, then it is a hideous unnatural effort. — Philip Larkin

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. — Lillian Hellman

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill. — Herbert M. Shelton

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium. — Simon Schama