When someone saves your life and gives you life, there’s gratitude, humility; there’s a time you’ve been so blessed you realize you’ve been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn’t deserve.
The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it’s still me in the sense that, my dad called me ‘Kali Uchis’ my whole life. It’s still something I’ve been called since I was a baby. It’s still me.
My life has been nothing but a failure.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
I think I’ve been through all the phases of the sport. I won, I lost, I got injured. Now I get to do what I love, with my truth, without worrying about what people will say or things like that.
My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image’s deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me… I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
Love him or hate him, no one has been able to figure out Donald Trump.
I’ve been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn’t do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don’t think I’d want 10 songs to bring with me.
Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.
Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life’s daily frustrations.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
I have to think that I think it’s always been a horse race between this administration’s temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they’re coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren’t conservative. These guys are radicals.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I’ve been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.
Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
I feel like my style’s always been influenced by ‘less is more.’ The coolest styles are kind of simple and classic, like a white T-shirt and jeans. Maybe you have a cool belt and cool shoes, but everything else you keep simple.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast.
The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ’s true love and forgiveness.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it’s a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it’s the sky or a sunset. I’ve been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.
God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don’t know what I’d do without them.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
All religions have been made by men.
Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.
My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
I cherish my entire life. I’ve been blessed with a life full of good memories.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Everyone’s a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that’s something I’ve been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
