G Ndeme Bakis Quotes

#1. Probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am.

Troy Polamalu

#2. Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

Wayne Muller

#3. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#5. I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all keep me in my place. If I didn't have them supporting all the work that I do, I wouldn't be in such a solid place.

Jess Glynne

#6. As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter.

Alexis Davis

#7. Embrace the love of God, and by love embrace God

Augustine Of Hippo

#8. I love '50s music, all that stuff from the '50s.

Steve Jones

#9. The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.

Elisabeth Marbury

#10. I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that clear: it's as if you have been living underwater, but never realized it until you came up for air.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman's despair.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#12. The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.

N.J. Dawood