Ssentongo Emmanuel Quotes & Sayings

You see pictures of Buddha and he's sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross. — Dave Eggers

Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately. — Robert A. Caro

What it really is and what I now have experienced is that, people who take enormous pride in what they're doing - not in their person - that their work ethos is as high as nowhere else.That they love their jobs, they love to do their jobs properly as best they can. And coupled with the financial umph, you know, you get decent results. — Christoph Waltz

She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late? — Patrick Modiano

Once you have swung a pickax that will reveal the curve of a street four thousand years covered over which was once an active, much-traveled highway, you are never quite the same again. — Thornton Wilder

I think that there should have been some nice wumpires," said my sister, wistfully. "Nice, handsome, misunderstood wumpires."
"There were not," said my father. — Neil Gaiman

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You're pretty much everything I've thought of for a while now — Kiersten White

That's not the spirit of the law, Emma. Remember? The Law is hard, but it is the Law."
"I thought it was 'the Law is annoying, but it is also flexible. — Cassandra Clare

I go to bed early; my favorite dream comes on at nine. — George Carlin

People fall short. Your finger-pointing hurts you more than it does them. Less judgement. More compassion — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.