Desmond Tutu Quotes
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.Desmond Tutu
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
Parker Stevenson -
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence -
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
Otto Rank -
I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
Uma Thurman -
Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
Vanessa Paradis -
The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
Oscar Isaac -
Our career had a sort of funny shape.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
M.I.A. -
My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
Waka Flocka Flame -
When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
Zhang Ziyi
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
Haile Gebrselassie -
We don't want our players getting hurt.
Gary Bettman -
People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
Naftali Bennett -
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
Hale Irwin -
Men create the gods in their own image.
Xenophanes
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I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.
Megan Hilty -
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in 'History', harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
Philip Roth -
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
J. B. Morton -
Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.
Darren L Johnson -
The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the eyes of the electorate or the eyes of whatever the local economy is built on; that would bring me hope.
Mark Leibovich -
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu