"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."

-- Wole Soyinka

#Novelists Quotes #Accidents Quotes

“Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.”
“I think the Republican tax law is so bad that it almost guarantees a Republican victory, precisely because it's so bad. The seeming irony is that it's so bad that it enables the Democratic Party to think, "A-ha, all we have to do is be the lesser evil.”
“I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.”
“God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”
“In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.”
“Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'”
“Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.”
“I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.”

Source : "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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