Tukani Quotes & Sayings

Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind. — Carlos P. Romulo

[I]f [we] believe in [ourselves], [we] can accomplish anything. — Greg Mortenson

In their censures of luxury, the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial;89 and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows (as Jacob reposed his head on a stone), white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to the expression of Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and an impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator. — Edward Gibbon

You can only go into science because you're interested in it. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others. — Cassandra Clare

People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know. — Kate Upton

Remember that there is a passion for souls that does not come from God, but from our desire to make converts to our point of view. — Oswald Chambers

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself. — Lindsay Wagner

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson. — Wynter Gordon

You alone are enough. — Oprah Winfrey

I wasn't the best waitress in the world, but I was cheerful and worked hard. — Lucy Alibar

My part," was the prompt reply, "was to run away, and the Lord's part was to run after me until He caught me. — Hannah Whitall Smith

Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. A culture that is merely sensuous and that denies the activity of the mind within sensuous materials risks becoming pornographic. — Julian Johnson