Whichelow Quotes & Sayings

Cities and roads
I have never seen
Are in the background of your photos
Yet, I don't feel
How faraway you are — Shasika Amali Munasinghe

As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches. — Albert Camus

When we're on the "me" plan, what others say about us has great power. A friend tells us we look good - our mind soars. A colleague tells us we're not pulling our weight at work - our mind sinks. — Sakyong Mipham

Certainly the European overlords did little enough to prepare Africa for self-government but Democracy would find it hard in any case to put down roots in a tribalist and patrimonial culture that long before the west invaded Africa had sacralized the personal authority of chieftains and ordained the submission of the rest. What the west would call corruption is regarded through much of Africa as no more than the prerogative of power. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Bur Armenians have a talent for sorrow. — Lionel Shriver

Scoundrels are always sociable. — Arthur Schopenhauer