Thamani Sacco Quotes & Sayings

I would not choose to live in any age but my own; advances in medicine alone, and the consequent survival of children with access to these benefits, should preclude any temptation to trade for the past. But we cannot understand history if we saddle the past with pejorative categories based on our bad habits for dividing continua into compartments of increasing worth towards the present. These errors apply to the vast paleontological history of life, as much as to the temporally trivial chronicle of human beings. I cringe every time I read that this failed business, or that defeated team, has become a dinosaur is succumbing to progress. Dinosaur should be a term of praise, not opprobrium. Dinosaurs reigned for more than 100 million years and died through no fault of their own; Homo sapiens is nowhere near a million years old, and has limited prospects, entirely self-imposed, for extended geological longevity. — Stephen Jay Gould

Come here, female. I mention lately how sexy your brain is. — J.R. Ward

To be successful you can't show up to the potluck with just a fork. — Dave Liniger

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted. — Stephen Covey

I like to do at least 15 minutes of cardio every day if I can fit it in. — Bella Hadid

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. — Frederick Douglass

If you have ever procrastinated and then found yourself energized to complete a task at the last minute, then you have used the beneficial aspect of the fight or flight response (not the procrastinating part, but the energizing part). You see, with all its negative long term effects, the fight or flight response still gives us energy, and if we know how to use that energy, then stress is potentially good, at least in the short term. — Gudjon Bergmann

I was a stranger in a familiar land. — John Connolly

No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our minds of faith, moreover, enable us to bring out the full potential in all things and situations, so it is crucial that we strive to forge our minds of faith. — Daisaku Ikeda

I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did. — Lauren Hutton

Shoot what you see, not what you think. — Manuel Alvarez Bravo

She was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. — Lewis Carroll