Umaru Musa Yar'adua Quotes & Sayings

Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanations for many things: emotions, awareness, consciousness, attention, perception, recognition. — Henry Markram

The fact that I had been on the point of making a similar heroic gesture was quite ignored, and this only increased my irritation. — Wilbur Smith

Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back? — Don Zimmer

Nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault. — Ellen Glasgow

I don't want you to be sorry. I don't want you to be anything, I snapped. Her expression was the final straw. Of course she didn't want to be around me. I was an infantil asshole that had the emotional control of a three-year-old. I shoved away from the table and pushed through the door, not stopping until I was sitting on my bike. — Jamie McGuire

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding. — David Whyte

I am a vegetarian. I don't want to have anything injected into me that I can't eat. I am a real health nut. I look after myself well. — Marie Helvin

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion? — Dick Gregory

The Seductive Lure of Socialism Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should be just; it must be philanthropic. Nor is it sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual, and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat again: These two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other. We must choose between them. A citizen cannot at the same time be free and not free. — Frederic Bastiat

Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American ... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956 ... But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game. — John Eliot

such as mating, childbearing, and establishing an occupation, lead to confusion, emptiness, and psychological distress. — Louis Cozolino

When you anxiously await to emerge from deep darkness, you will realize the beauty of light. — Debasish Mridha

Nature made us ... nature did it all ... not the gods of the religions. — Thomas A. Edison