Tutuola The Gentle Quotes & Sayings

I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism. — Sam Harris

Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west of the Allegheny Mountains, and several multinational companies; people come and go from all over the world. — Kim Edwards

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. — Thomas Jefferson

In the end, the details weren't about beauty or status. They never had been, for me. They were about feeling at home in the world. And Joan hated these details. She thought my existence relentlessly tedious. What she couldn't see was that the details were life. That was how you loved someone: every day, without fail, over and over. — Anton DiSclafani

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions ... Adolf Hitler in London. — Michael Caine

To have died once is enough. — Virgil

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach. — Michael Faudet

Is every writer's keyboard a spill magnet? — A.D. Posey

I agree with the secretary [Hillary Clinton] that I think what has to happen - and let me just mention what King Abdullah of Jordan said. I think he hit the nail on the head. — Hillary Clinton

Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet. — William Wordsworth

When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty for France and America. The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship. — Chauncey Depew

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition. — Eugene Kennedy

he published a manifesto with a title Darwinists have been quoting ever since: "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution."78 — Tom Wolfe

Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors. — Friedrich Nietzsche