Meja Quotes

#1. Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and so she chose music that expressed order and healing:Bach for order, Mozart for healing.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.

Jerome Charyn

#4. My library is filled with UN condemnations.

Augusto Pinochet

#5. The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#6. I hate him." "You hate everyone you don't like," Toto reminded him.

Meja Mwangi

#7. Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

Sarah Addison Allen

#8. Freedom is control in your own life.

Willie Nelson

#9. Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

Idries Shah

#10. In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.

Gerald Jonas

#11. Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.

Oswald Chambers

#12. I wrote about what I was going through at the time.

Avril Lavigne