Ray Phiri Quotes & Sayings

Oh, once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back." Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. "We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight. — David Mitchell

It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents ... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class. — Tamra Davis

Redheads were always trouble. — Heather Graham

That her own self-deception and self-absorption, her own slavery to the society and family in which she had been brought up, had reduced this blameless man to a weeping wreck struck her as horrific. She saw more clearly than she had ever seen before that she must change, or keep hurting the people who truly loved her. — Shamim Sarif

He became an unimaginative woman's creation. Delilah had shorn his locks and assured him he looked much neater and cooler without them. He gave her his soul, and she transformed it into a cabbage. — Robertson Davies

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail. — Augustine Of Hippo

I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions. — Esai Morales

Stay determined to achieve your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And as we pretend to be brave, we become so. All — Pierce Brown

Something important is always about to happen ... And if not, you'd do well to act as if it were. You'll enjoy life better that way. — Julia Quinn

The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control. — Billy Graham

The world had been stirred by a hot poker, and sparks of crazy were flying. — Laini Taylor