Unbowed By Wangari Quotes & Sayings

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. — Ludwig Tieck

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a life to lead. I recalled words a friend had told me, the philosophy of her faith. "Life is a journey and a struggle," she had said. "We cannot control it, but we can make the best of any situation." I was indeed in quite a situation. It was up to me to make the best of it. — Wangari Maathai

Mortality, a writer of my generation once said, trumps morality. — Robert Charles Wilson

The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---people who were total self-creations. — Truman Capote

I'm thinking that I like you, and that's a problem for me."
His serious tone startles me. "Why's it a problem?"
"Because I don't like people," he says bluntly. "I deal with people. — J.M. Darhower

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow. — Sri Aurobindo

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders. — Michael Moore

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them? — Ray Bradbury

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. — Arthur Henderson

Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for — Sunday Adelaja

I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious space and not ask myself what the novel is about or what my metaphors might mean because then, I think, you're just dead in the water. — Laurie Foos

Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn't mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied. — Patricia Hampl

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load. — Saadi