Upendo Wa Kweli Quotes & Sayings

One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery
and more totally useless
than the perfect numbers. — Martin Gardner

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. — Fernando Pessoa

Everything diminishes with time, my darling, but my feelings for certain people pierce me daily, and it is no illusion that they center me and let me know who I am, and let me know that I have loved and have been loved, no matter how badly or clumsily. — Tennessee Williams

Holiness is the object of our new creation. We are born again so that we may grow up into Christlikeness. — J.I. Packer

We're like two dogs in battle on their own;
They fought all day but neither got the bone,
There came a kite above them, nothing loth,
And while they fought he took it from them both."
From Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale — Geoffrey Chaucer

I don't really remember, but from about the age of five I told anyone who would listen that I was going to be the best golfer in the world. — Rory McIlroy

All things are one. — Paulo Coelho

I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes. — Vinod Khosla

Prostitution is, essentially, not a capitalist phenomenon but a patriarchal one. It did not automatically occur when people began to buy and sell but is instead rooted in the relationship between men and women. But when prostitution is incorporated an advanced, highly developed market economy, this complex power struggle itself becomes a commodity. Sex is separated from the person and becomes supernatural. — Kajsa Ekis Ekman

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked! — Gabrielle Union

In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it. — Annette Bening

The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover; and my house shall be, in all humility, in the wilderness a civilized place. — Karen Blixen