Shamsudeen Ali Quotes & Sayings

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself. — Elizabeth I

Are you sure you weren't adopted?"
"Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear. — Jana Deleon

Human beings are better equipped to cope with disaster and hardship than they are with unvarying security, but as long as security is the highest value in a community they can have little opportunity to decide this for themselves. It is agreed that Englishmen coped magnificently with a war, and were more cheerful, enterprising and friendly under the daily threat of bombardment than they are now under benevolent peacetime, when we are so far from worrying about how many people starve in Africa that we can tolerate British policy in Nigeria. — Germaine Greer

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that. — Dizzy Gillespie

Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor. — Marsha Blackburn

Nothing like someone crazier than you to make you feel sane. — Mark Henwick

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow. — Max Horkheimer

I leaned against his side, his irritation oddly comforting. After a moment he grudgingly put his arm around me. The deep quiet was already settling back upon the grove, as if all the fire and rage we'd brought could make only a brief interruption in its peace. — Naomi Novik