Wole Soyinka quote: "And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms."

It still has not sunk in yet.
DENNIS TOMASEVICZ

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they'...
JASON RITTER

Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you&#...
RICHARD LAMM

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than...
ELON MUSK

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form o...
JOSE SARAMAGO

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.
CHARLIZE THERON

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's somethi...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it's ...
BILL FLORES

There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's ...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL

I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it...
ANTON CORBIJN

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first pr...
THOM MAYNE

There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as ...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among t...
MAGGIE SMITH

There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the huma...
JOEL KINNAMAN

Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swis...
NAVAL RAVIKANT

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES

It hasn't quite sunk in yet.
DWAYNE JONES

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basi...
MICKY DOLENZ

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when y...
CHRIS CORNELL

It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember ...
RALPH HALL

It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: '...
ERIK LARSON

In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot ...
CARL PALADINO

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they'...
JOSHUA BELL

The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - t...
EDDIE VEDDER

It's been surreal. I don't even think it's sunk in completely yet.
ALLISON SHARP

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to th...
ADRIAN EDMONDSON

Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning abo...
JEFFREY R. IMMELT

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it s...
AI WEIWEI

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and ...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.
ROBERT PLANT

There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're fa...
BETTY WILLIAMS

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone say...
GABRIEL MANN

There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK

In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're ...
KREAYSHAWN

You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and an...
JANEANE GAROFALO

In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curab...
DAVID FURNISH

I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, but this is definitely a dream come true.
ANDY GREENE

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in th...
PETER DIAMANDIS

There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; ...
CALVIN KLEIN

It's like it's not real. It really hasn't sunk in yet. It comes and goes.
JOSEE MARTEL

For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. ...
MIKE NICHOLS

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same ...
RACHEL WEISZ

Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immi...
RUSH LIMBAUGH

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it w...
MARILYN MONROE

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becom...
DAVID LACHAPELLE

It feels unbelievable. It still hasn't sunk in yet.
KRISTEN NASH

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b...
TOM SELLECK

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it'...
JOE ROGAN

It hasn't sunk in yet. It's just unbelievable.
KATHLEEN MILLS

People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. ...
AVI RUBIN

The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the count...
DAN BARTLETT

There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story re...
BEN KATCHOR

Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can'...
YURI MILNER

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
CARLY FIORINA

It hasn't sunk in yet and probably won't until the Opening Ceremony.
JANA LINDSEY

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real troubl...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wa...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't se...
CAROL LEIFER

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there&#...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but...
IRVINE WELSH

I was always snobby about soap operas, and commercials, too, but one does have to eat. I remember au...
JEAN SMART

If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of...
JAMES NORTON

In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever bod...
DANA PLATO

There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what y...
HELEN FISHER

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier...
BRUCE BOXLEITNER

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things...
CHAZ BONO

In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of ...
GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS

I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music,...
DANIEL BRYAN

There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they&...
JAMIE LAWSON

It's not that white guys shouldn't be allowed to engage in discussions on race in America. B...
JOHN RIDLEY

My character's kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they're more or le...
LIAM HEMSWORTH

Speaking theoretically, in a completely made-up world where 'Will & Grace' is coming bac...
MEGAN MULLALLY

For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the ...
CAMILLA BELLE

A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If y...
EVAN DAUGHERTY

I'm so excited it really hasn't sunk in yet.
ASHLYN LLERANDI

With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color ...
HANS ZIMMER

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you...
BILL BURR

Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you...
DAVID BYRNE

To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be ...
I. M. PEI

I'm a very big proponent of cloud. We've used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we c...
WILBUR ROSS

The Democratic Party has sunk to a new low with a false, personal attack against his family. It's gu...
JASON KLINDT

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

The world is constantly in a race to the top, in terms of there's a limited amount of capital an...
DAVID MALPASS

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these g...
JACK ANDERSON

As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me.
The funny thing is that okayness...
MARKUS ZUSAK

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. T...
TOM SMOTHERS

When you're a 'product' for a lot of people, they're only really after one thing, an...
JESSE MCCARTNEY

There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're givi...
ELI PARISER

Honestly, I've always loved cheesesteaks. They're kind of my go-to when there's nothing ...
CARSON WENTZ

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're...
IRWIN REDLENER

We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's bes...
STERLING K. BROWN

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

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And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

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