Umfundisi Quotes

#1. I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

Alan Paton

#2. No human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

John Ruskin

#3. People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.

Denise Mina

#4. Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

Eric Burdon

#6. We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.

Luisah Teish

#7. Time spent with people of not your liking is time wasted

Lou Silluzio

#8. I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.

Sabrina Bryan

#9. The little Durands were there, I conclude," said she, "with their mouths open to catch the music; like unfledged sparrows ready to be fed. They never miss a concert.

Jane Austen

#10. the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.

Guy Deutscher

#11. I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

Lena Waithe

#12. A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#13. Read in the name of your Lord Who created. He created man from a clot.Read and your Lord is Most Honorable, Who taught (to write) with the pen. Taught man what he knew not.

Anonymous

#14. I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.

Dean Smith

#15. All "favourable" Utopias seem to be alike in postulating perfection while being unable to suggest happiness.

George Orwell