Makonda Leo Quotes

#1. Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)

Michael Ben Zehabe

#3. Environmentalists blame the farmers for overdosing with pesticides, and the farmers blame the consumers for demanding blemish-free fruit.

William Alexander

#4. You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.

Francesca Marciano

#5. Nobody looked at him. He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in the street full of men.

Joseph Conrad

#6. They had stumbled either upon a serious flaw in modern financial markets or into a great gambling run. Characteristically, they were not sure which it was. As Charlie pointed out, It's really hard to know when you're lucky and when you're smart.

Michael Lewis

#7. It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#8. The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.

Ismail Kadare

#9. Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

Kevin Kelly