"A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday."

--

Source : Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.135, Heinemann

Chinua Achebe

#Men Quotes #Yesterday Quotes #Said Quotes

“It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.55, Quirk Books
“I met my wife on Spring break when I was in college. I was at the University of Notre Dame. She was at the University of New Hampshire. I bumped into her in Florida and told her the next day that I was going to marry her and 20 or something years later here we are.”
“I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.”

Source : Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”
“I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. Im a financial success!”
“The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest”
“I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.”

Source : "Singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 29, 2010.
“Generosity is a practical expression of Love.”

You may also like:

Ben Okri
Poet
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Writer
Joseph Conrad
Author
Nadine Gordimer
Writer
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Economist
Obafemi Awolowo
Nigerian statesman
Wole Soyinka
Writer
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Writer
Okey Ndibe
Novelist