"He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him."

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Trying Quotes #Needs Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.”
“Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product.”
“Do not be afraid to say 'yes' to Jesus: to find your joy in doing His will”
“The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.”
“Leadership from the Oval Office - and sustained, effective use of the bully pulpit - is essential to getting the American people off their too-pampered butts and into meeting successfully the long-haul challenges of fixing major problems in the very fabric of our republic's life, both domestically and in our international relations.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Schulman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.
“The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.”
“Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.”
“To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Deathâ€”however â€œhumaneâ€â€”is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.”

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