Sese Quotes

#1. That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view.
[Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#2. But most people will draw their own conclusions on learning that the dictator's official name, Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, translates as 'the cock who goes from hen to hen knowing no fatigue'.

Jonathan Margolis

#3. If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught.

Mobutu Sese Seko

#4. A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, We live here. We live here.

Christopher Buehlman

#5. And Amber?"
Cade looked stricken at the mention. "I knew her before she had breasts, so she doesn't count."
"I'm sure she'd love to hear that."
"She won't." His eyes narrowed in warning. "Ever. Now seriously, what's the deal with you and
Kelsey?

Maisey Yates

#6. Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us? That is an inheritance, and when we squander that inheritance we act outside. We don't know who we are; we don't know where we are.

Wynton Marsalis

#7. What a benediction is this fragrance of the early morning! The vernal grass fills the whole atmosphere as with a shower of sweetness.

Sarah Smiley

#8. It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. I have rendered my country and people an enormous service. They owe me everything.

Mobutu Sese Seko

#10. If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

Mobutu Sese Seko

#11. I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.

Mobutu Sese Seko

#12. People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.

Lurlene McDaniel

#13. Global food insecurity is increasing ... the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

Lester R. Brown

#14. You can't kiss a girl into anything.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

Charlotte Casiraghi

#16. The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.

Mobutu Sese Seko

#17. Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it's all that more likely it'll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter.

Cormac McCarthy

#18. First try all other means, but if the wound
Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
From the diseased the canker spread.

Ovid

#19. The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.

Ian K. Smith

#20. He saw firsthand the way that the Disney people took advantage of the open floor plan, sharing information and brainstorming. Steve was a big believer in the power of accidental mingling; he knew that creativity was not a solitary endeavor.

Ed Catmull