Tapiwa W.B > Tapiwa W.B's Quotes

“Men, there is much to live for, and there is much to die for. The man, the race of nation that is not prepared to risk life itself for the possession of an ideal, shall lose that ideal. If you, I repeat, must be free, you yourselves must strike the blow.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“was the crying voice from the grave that said, ‘Garvey, we have suffered for 250 years for your day and for your time; we expect something from you at this hour.’”16”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“whipped. It annoys me to be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“You at this time can only be destroyed by yourselves, from within and not from without. You have reached the point where the victory is to be won from within and can only be lost from within.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“squeezed the present for all it was worth. He believed meaning is found only in the present, for the past is gone and the future looms indeterminate if it arrives at all.”
― William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
― William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. ”
― Hippocrates

“Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.”
― Thomas Szasz

“All bleeding eventually stops.”
― Jeffrey M. Goller M.D.

“How does your patient, doctor?

Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.

Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.

Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Please understand that we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”
― William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.”
― William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future,”
― William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

“Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.”
― Ali A. Mazrui, Africa, the next thirty years

“What is clear is that democracy is not the prerequisite for economic growth that aid proponents maintain. On the contrary, it is economic growth that is a prerequisite for democracy; and the one thing economic growth does not need is aid. In”
― Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

“The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.”
― John Chrysostom

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
― M. Scott Peck