"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."

-- Chinua Achebe

#Years Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“Impossible to see, the future is.”
“3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.”

Source : "Frank Miller: Occupy Wall Street ‘Louts, Thieves & Rapists,’ Comic Writer Says". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2011.
“I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about.”
“Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.”
“Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.”

Source : Emma Bull (2004). “War for the Oaks: A Novel”, p.211, Macmillan
“After my husband died more than a decade ago, my mother prayed that I would remarry so that I could have a "normal" life again. Many people assumed that it would be too difficult for me to carry on as a single mother and raise a child without a man at my side. As the years went by, I found that it was indeed possible and that, in fact, I had no desire to remarry.”

Source : Source: www.yabookshelf.com
“It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.”
“As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.”

Source : Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.154, The Floating Press

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