"Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.â€"

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#People Quotes #Broken Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.”
“It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.”

Source : John Grisham (1999). “The client: the street lawyer”
“Please understand 1 thing, if u want something all you have to do is think it into existence. It may manifest immediately, it may take time.”
“Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.”

Source : John Herman Randall (1911). “A New Philosophy of Life”
“I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.”
“A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.”
“Electing Sudan to the UN body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter.”

Source : "UN accuses Sudan's president of genocide; then mulls naming him to Human Rights Council". www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2012.
“The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.”

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