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Wole Soyinka

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GEORGES PEREC Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR A place begin to be a home when you've just begin to wash.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is...
MICHAEL D. HIGGINS To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
...
ENIGMA Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER You're the best gay friend I've ever had!
AMERICA TALKING TO FRANCE Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
QUI-GON TO ANAKIN Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYA AANGELOU You can call a jackass a thoroughbred but that doesn't make it so.
ATTRIBUTED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN Meg felt her heart lurch. It bothered her that the twins realized that she hated their brother. The ...
LORRAINE HEATH Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Death is only a place to rest while we decide where to go next.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL - Mrzim sve što je odricanje!
- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ...
DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood
the lesson.
DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"

"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth...
NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
E...
CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Ri...
JEANIENE FROST I'm always going to love my father.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence.

-Engraved on the monument Cl...
LORRAINE HEATH Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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KRISTEN CALLIHAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE When we repent by grace, we shall receive times of refreshing from God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.
SIMONE ELKELES Finance people should remember Albert Einstein’s wise words: “Not everything that counts can be ...
BJARTE BOGSNES Albert Einstein once said that ‘insanity’ was ‘Doing the same thing over and over again, expec...
JOSS SHELDON If I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.
ENRICO FERMI Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and ...
DARRYL ANKA The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
ANONYMOUS Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.
THéOPHILE GAUTIER The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.
J. KENNER To have time as an ally it must firstly be understood and respected,without time we have no way forw...
GARY F EVANS... When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
PHILIPPA GREGORY Life is given. Success is not. That's exactly why many people do not succeed, because the path isn't...
NICO DEAN FULGENZI When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
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GRETCHEN RUBIN Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh...
DOROTHY B. HUGHES To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life
PAULLINA SIMONS One's selection of solution on plaguing issues is likely to be best and correct when taken or done o...
ANUJ SOMANY Be true to yourself & your feelings.They will never let you down.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Dont be afraid to take a big step.You cant cross a chasm in two small steps.
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE You can never sanctify to God that with which you long to satisfy yourself.
OSWALD CHAMBERS Be true to yourself & take responsibility of your action.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Respect your own self being.Don’t compromise by living someone else life.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Being true to self is better than being liar to impress & influence other.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Being true to self is the biggest accomplishment.You are born original, remain original by virtue of...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When you are true to yourself, you are completely honest with what you feel, deeply value, and desir...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself. Being true to yourself is most effective way to make you proud of yourself.Make...
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The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Mus...
WOLE SOYINKA The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the should...
WOLE SOYINKA History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accomp...
WOLE SOYINKA I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.
WOLE SOYINKA I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come a...
WOLE SOYINKA A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.
WOLE SOYINKA Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private sp...
WOLE SOYINKA I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wishe...
WOLE SOYINKA My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to ...
WOLE SOYINKA The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
WOLE SOYINKA Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that a...
WOLE SOYINKA Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
WOLE SOYINKA The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, ...
WOLE SOYINKA Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere i...
WOLE SOYINKA I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yield...
WOLE SOYINKA Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves re...
WOLE SOYINKA One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own res...
WOLE SOYINKA You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life...
WOLE SOYINKA Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
WOLE SOYINKA Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how...
WOLE SOYINKA There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoi...
WOLE SOYINKA Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
WOLE SOYINKA Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.
WOLE SOYINKA The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
WOLE SOYINKA I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
WOLE SOYINKA The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
WOLE SOYINKA I am a glutton for tranquility.
WOLE SOYINKA And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of oth...
WOLE SOYINKA Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of...
WOLE SOYINKA I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.
WOLE SOYINKA See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet com...
WOLE SOYINKA Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the own...
WOLE SOYINKA The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular,...
WOLE SOYINKA A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment ...
WOLE SOYINKA One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intima...
WOLE SOYINKA We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
WOLE SOYINKA But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of commu...
WOLE SOYINKA Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will h...
WOLE SOYINKA All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be...
WOLE SOYINKA An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no ...
WOLE SOYINKA After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year tra...
WOLE SOYINKA No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.
WOLE SOYINKA But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you ...
WOLE SOYINKA Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.
WOLE SOYINKA Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for ...
WOLE SOYINKA England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions...
WOLE SOYINKA [It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I'...
WOLE SOYINKA Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals w...
WOLE SOYINKA There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to ...
WOLE SOYINKA My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a cert...
WOLE SOYINKA Just like birds, hunters know no borders.
WOLE SOYINKA Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me persona...
WOLE SOYINKA I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.
WOLE SOYINKA The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.
WOLE SOYINKA A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces
WOLE SOYINKA Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for ...
WOLE SOYINKA One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
WOLE SOYINKA There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other peopl...
WOLE SOYINKA I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.
WOLE SOYINKA We are moving towards a total mockery of constitutionalism. The president has crossed the line of po...
WOLE SOYINKA Obasanjo has acted sufficiently against the constitution to warrant his impeachment. There is more t...
WOLE SOYINKA My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain...
WOLE SOYINKA Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind
WOLE SOYINKA an opportunity for Nigerian civic society, an opportunity for the Nigerian military, and an opportun...
WOLE SOYINKA Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.
WOLE SOYINKA Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.
WOLE SOYINKA I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one...
WOLE SOYINKA We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.
WOLE SOYINKA The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
WOLE SOYINKA African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.
WOLE SOYINKA The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of soci...
WOLE SOYINKA And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than ...
WOLE SOYINKA There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
WOLE SOYINKA There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in rel...
WOLE SOYINKA I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se...
WOLE SOYINKA My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in...
WOLE SOYINKA Power, of course. The primitive fear of being controlled. It does not matter whether it is an invasi...
WOLE SOYINKA the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but...
WOLE SOYINKA