Sincretic Quotes & Sayings

After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African. — Dikembe Mutombo

We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord. — Fred Hammond

Those that know where they are going will not take any path they see in front of them, but they will take the one that goes in the direction they want. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

I am myself and I am here. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again. — Bob Dylan

You don't understand!" screamed the tourist, above the terrible noise of the wingbeats. "All my life I've wanted to see dragons!"
"From the inside?" shouted Rincewind. "Shut up and ride! — Terry Pratchett

I have no sympathy whatever with writing lists of the One Hundred Best Books, or the Five-Foot Library. It is all right for a man to amuse himself by composing a list of a hundred very good books; and if he is to go off for a year or so where he cannot get many books, it is an excellent thing to choose a five-foot library of particular books which in that particular year and on that particular trip he would like to read. But there is no such thing as a hundred books that are best for all men, or for the majority of men, or for one man at all times; and there is no such thing as a five-foot library which will satisfy the needs of even one particular man on different occasions extending over a number of years. — Theodore Roosevelt

You're bored?" she says incredulously. "You have two hands and a penis. This shouldn't be a difficult equation. — Abria Mattina

Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness. — Frederick Lenz

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit. — Megan Whalen Turner