Takie Ndou Quotes & Sayings

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. — Vladimir Lenin

I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica. — Girl Talk

Forgive my brother," Camira apologized. "We don't normally let him out of his cage when guests are present. — Brandon Mull

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear. — Bruce Lee

Regardless of WHAT we do in our lives, our WHY - our driving purpose, cause or belief - never changes. — Simon Sinek

Damn, he was good. I'd been professionally sullied without a single item of clothing removed. — Kylie Scott

In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed. — Jaggi Vasudev

Because I was the match that started the inferno. — Jay McLean

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination. — Albert Camus

In all likelihood, Sonja had more academic journal subscriptions than friends. She could explain advanced calculus to her fifth-form algebra teacher but couldn't tell a joke to a boy at lunch. — Anthony Marra

An therein lurks the cruelest truth of all. In the end, we are no different from every other cult, every other religion. Convincing ourselves of the righteousness of our path. Convincing ourselves that we alone hold to an immutable truth. Secure in the belief that everyone else is damned.

But it was all a game, the sacred a playground for secular power struggles, venal ambition.

What's left to believe in? — Steven Erikson

That truth set me free, along with other truths like leaning daily on God's grace and realizing that God's children are never victims. Everything that touches their lives, he permits. The irony is, you can't imagine a more victimized person than Jesus. Yet when he died, he didn't say, "I am finished" but "It is finished." He did not play the victim, and thus he emerged the victor. Forget the self-pity. True, your supervisor may be trying to push you out of your job. Your marriage may be a fiery trial. You might be living below the poverty level. But victory is ours in Christ. His grace is sufficient. Know this truth and it will set you free. This day, Jesus, I can feel sorry for myself or victorious in you. Show me how to choose the latter. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Am I falling in love? She thought, is it safe to do so with this man? She thought, I don't need to answer. — Freya North

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.' — Todd Phillips

When something's lost I wanna fight to get it back again — Pearl Jam