Tesfalem Atenaw Quotes & Sayings

We still don't have a good word to describe what is missing in Cameroon, indeed in poor countries across the world. But we are starting to understand what it is. Some people call it 'social capital, or maybe 'trust'. Others call it 'the rule of law', or 'institutions'. But these are just labels. The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy world in which it's in most people's interest to take action that directly or indirectly damages everyone else. — Tim Harford

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything. — Paul Gauguin

Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition. — Seth MacFarlane

You'll abandon me?
Who will
then see
the attire of my nakedness
in which I appear
truly
beautiful? — Maram Al-Masri

What I really needed wasn't a dose of school spirit; it was a glass of water, an aspirin the size of my fist, and the answers to the history exam that I hadn't studied for the night before. "As long as I'm dreaming," I muttered, my words lost to the cacophony of the gym, "I'd also like a pony, a convertible, and a couple of friends."
"That's a tall order." I'd known that there were people sitting next to me, but I couldn't begin to imagine how one of them had heard me. I hadn't even heard me. "Would you settle for a piece of gum, an orange Tic Tac, and an introduction the the school slut? — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically. — Nell Newman

Wishes are an anesthetic to
be used by the unambitious, a
narcotic that dulls their awareness of
their own desperate condition — Jim Rohn

I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they said it, what they wanted, what they hoped for - more than I could learn from books alone. — Dean Koontz

When you're way too real, fake people be like: You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies). — T.F. Hodge

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
[Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae
Celata virtus.] — Horace