Ifesinachi Sylvia Quotes

#1. Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Desmond Tutu

#2. Nodding, smiling, suffocating in his black gown and hoping that people would not notice his mother sobbing

Anonymous

#3. The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

Lafcadio Hearn

#4. We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

Muhammad Yunus

#5. Her heart ached, but she took her resolution. It will be seen that Fantine possessed the stern courage of life.

Victor Hugo

#6. It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. Silvery dancing strands that seemed the pure play of light, light as evanescent news, ideas borne on light.

Don DeLillo

#8. What is worse than a quitter? Someone who is afraid to begin.

Bill Davis

#9. Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

Jennifer Tour Chayes

#10. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.

Thomas Gray

#11. A tangible object passes complete into my brain with the warmth of life upon it, and occupies the same place that it does in space; for, without egotism, the mind is as large as the universe.

Helen Keller

#12. Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

George Foreman

#13. Our suffering does not make us weak; only our avoidance of suffering makes us weak. And that avoidance - the avoidance of legitimate suffering - is unfortunately bolstered by the cultural attitudes of a society obsessed with cheap and easy happiness.

Marianne Williamson

#14. The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.

Jim Trelease

#15. Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.

Esaias Tegner