Akande Adebowale Quotes

#1. We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death ... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.

Paul Weller

#2. The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

Jacques Maritain

#3. All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.

George Crook

#4. When belonging to an elite group eclipses the love of God, when I draw life and meaning from any source other than my belovedness, I am spiritually dead. When God gets relegated to second place behind any bauble or trinket, I have swapped the pearl of great price for painted fragments of glass.

Brennan Manning

#5. Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

Jack Nicklaus

#6. Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?

Ali Shaw