"The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, irritability of the stomach, and a peculiar change of the colour in the skin, occurring in connection with a diseased condition of the suprarenal capsules."

-- Thomas Addison

#Change Quotes #Heart Quotes #Skins Quotes

“If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the Will of God, in which the angels find all their delight and men all their happiness.”
“A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.”

Source : Abba Solomon Eban (1999). “Diplomacy for the Next Century”, p.88, Yale University Press
“In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.”

Source : "Singer Nneka tells world of love and injustice in Nigeria" by Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 1, 2010.
“When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.”
“I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.”
“A revolution doesnâ€™t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors”
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
“Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.”

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