Sylbert Clarke Quotes & Sayings

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. — John Ruskin

When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West? — Djimon Hounsou

I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways. — Richard Eyre

Try to grow straight, and life will bend you. — G.K. Chesterton

People of the world, the time for decision is short. It is measured in a few years. The choice is ours as to whether or not we will pay the price of peace. If we are not willing to pay it, all that we hold dear will be consumed in the flame of war. The darkness in our world today is due to the disintegration of things which are contrary to God's laws. Let us never say hopelessly this is the darkness before a storm; rather let us say with faith this is the darkness before the dawn of the golden age of peace, which we cannot now even imagine. For this, let us hope and work and pray. — Peace Pilgrim

Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking. — T.F. Hodge

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. — Tom Wolfe

And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do. — Barbara Park

Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. We're both from Brooklyn. I didn't know him growing up, but once he became heavyweight champion, I knew him then. — Spike Lee

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child. — Captain Beefheart

Embrace the unknown. It is the only certainty. — Jayne Ann Krentz

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow. — Zoe Kazan

But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83) — Sheldon B. Kopp

Therefore you, too, mother, know that your infant, too, surely now stands before the throne of the Lord, rejoicing and being glad, and praying to God for you. Weep, then, but also rejoice. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky