quotes about Feasting

“Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.190, Booklassic

“Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.”

“Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is.”

“Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.”

“I believe that anybody who gets married should go to a counselor for months before the wedding. I think that's going to save guys a lot of money and the ladies a lot of heartbreak.”

“Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.”

“We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.”

“You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will not be like her mother. She can invent something new. I think that is the best message of modernity.”

Source : Source: www.mantlethought.org

“I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.”

Source : "Mo Yan and Joseph Anton" by Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. October 12, 2012.

“I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.”