"I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Barkhad Abdi

#War Quotes #Years Quotes #Seven Quotes

“It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.”
“When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.”
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”

Source : Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.76, SCM Press
“All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.”
“A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.”
“Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.”
“Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.”
“The first step... shall be to lose the way.”

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