Sherifatu Sumaila Quotes & Sayings

Making my work more visual is something I am increasingly excited about. I am hopeful that it will broaden access to some of the ideas being engaged in activist and scholarly communities of which I am part. — Dean Spade

I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists. — Robert Reed

I told you from the beginning - as soon as I could - I told you I was afraid of myself." There was a piteous pleading in the low murmur in which Deronda turned his ear only. Her face afflicted him too much. "I felt a hatred in me that was always working like an evil spirit - contriving things. Everything I could do to free myself came into my mind; and it got worse - all things got worse. That is why I asked you to come to me in town. I thought then I would tell you the worst about myself. I tried. But I could not tell everything. — George Eliot

The mind becomes a friend to the one who has control over it and an enemy to the one who is controlled by it. — Edward Viljoen

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it. — Tony Bennett

I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to learn. — Wendell Berry

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants. — Peter Senge

I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet. — Junot Diaz

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear. — Paul Greengrass

Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so. — Theresa May