"Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity."

-- Olusegun Obasanjo

#People Quotes #Humanity Quotes #World Quotes

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”

Source : The Life of Reason vol. 1, introduction (1905)
“We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.”
“I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.”
“When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.”
“A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing.”

Source : Dru Pagliassotti (2017). “Clockwork Heart”, p.88, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”
“In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.”

Source : "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.
“Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.”

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