Maskini A African Quotes

#1. Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

#2. I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

Jennifer Ellison

#3. Never thought I'd see the day when you'd throw your arms around a vam - someone like me

Richelle Mead

#4. Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Plato

#5. I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying.

Phil Jackson

#6. Following the rules only takes you so far, sooner or later you have to forget them and play by your heart.

G.J. Walker-Smith

#7. Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Stephen Covey

#8. I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

Richard Saul Wurman

#9. A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.

Joseph Story

#10. He licked his lips. 'Well, if you want my opinion-'
'I don't, ' She said. 'I have my own.

Toni Morrison

#11. It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

Sheila Heti

#12. It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.

Bill Roorbach

#13. But when I cut off my hair I even had friends not recognize me.

Davey Havok

#14. It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#15. Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the prime reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million people, a nearly 300% increase. We now lock up one out of every hundred adults, far more than any other country.

Piper Kerman