"It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people."

-- Nelson Mandela

#People Quotes #Leader Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Everyone in your life is a 'practise person.' How you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.”
“Patch wasn't the kind of guy mothers smiled on. He was the kind of guy they changed the house locks for.”

Source : Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.”
“I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.”
“Life Sucks,get a helmet”

Source : Denis Leary (2015). “No Cure for Cancer”, p.43, Anchor
“I can't take this any more, I'm out of here - on leaving Hell's Kitchen”
“The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency.”
“Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.”

Source : "One Day star Rafe Spall on Anne Hathaway, Ridley Scott and dad Tim". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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