Umuaka Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the imagination is the true predator. — Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Look what love does...This was the real Islam, the Islam of love, not hate. Muhammad would be proud. — Deborah Rodriguez

[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like them. — Jeffrey Rosen

Though poets might prefer a more evocative comparison, astrophysicists liken the sun to a nuclear fusion reactor. — Eric W. Sanderson

When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about. — Rebecca MacKinnon

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them. — Michael Ondaatje

Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths ... by 2050 ... Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year. — Bjorn Lomborg

Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the refrain might not actually have flogged the children to death. — Chinua Achebe

Whatever you put in your mouth, make sure it's high quality. — Marilu Henner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. — Charles Dudley Warner

The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well. — Theophilus London

Back in Minneapolis, I said I would go to American. I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgment from my brain when I get my head set on something. Everything is done at all costs. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense, pretty much. People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers-everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and everyone tells you you're very dramatic, very intense, and they see it as an affectation, but it's actually just how you think. It really seems to you that the sky will fall if you are not personally holding it up. On the one hand, this is sheer arrogance; on the other hand, this is a very real fear. And it isn't that you ignore the potential repercussions of your actions. You don't think there are any. — Marya Hornbacher

I think we think in terms of stories. — David Mitchell

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life. — Warren Buffett

The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged. — Jennifer Baumgardner

Freedom is living without chains. — Indra Devi