Wa Thiongo Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time. — Duke Snider

I'm not really an actress. — Khloe Kardashian

I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties. — Dutch Ruppersberger

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership. — Margaret Heffernan

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients. — A. J. Jacobs

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle. — Coco Chanel

Anyone who attacks individual charity, attacks human nature and casts contempt on personal dignity. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Word For The Day BOONDOGGLE (BOON dahg'uhl) n. A pointless project. Work of no value, done merely to appear busy. Alternate Word ICKY (IK ee) adj. Very distasteful; disgusting. — Deb Baker

Ah, my dear; and I shall never be happy unless I can open the windows! — Edith Wharton

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs. — Sendhil Mullainathan

Hero love?" I was puzzled. "You know. The kind of love you have for someone you want to be like: Marines, astronauts, cowboys, teachers, big brothers, that sort of thing. You love them because they represent the you that you want to be. — Leland Dirks

Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. — Yehuda Bauer