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thinking work-out today
I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out. Chinua Achebe
thinking done world
I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.
thinking citizens
I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.
teacher past night
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past – with all its imperfections – was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.
trouble failure-of-leadership nigeria
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,
tree sun bigs
When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
thought-provoking house ceilings
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?
thought-provoking giving headache
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
tasks generations embrace
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
thought-provoking
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
thinking nuts white
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.
tree lizards praise
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
thinking people literature
You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.
thinking allies moral
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
two friendly may
A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
thinking age world
I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully. China Machado
tv-shows television want
I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV. China Chow
thinking winning want
Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer. Chick Hearn
truth simple feel-good
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right. Chick Corea
travel memories adventure
Take only memories, leave only footprints. Chief Seattle
talking land wire
When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then
tongue speak
I will speak with a straight tongue. Chief Joseph
truth believe heart
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.
truth few-words telling-the-truth
It takes few words to tell the truth.
tired heart home
Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.
travel native-american men
Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
tired broken-promises american-indian
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
trouble bloodshed hard
I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
tired native-american heart
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
tired native-american heart
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.
truth native-american reality
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
tea stuff painting
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings. China Mieville
too-much used changed
Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.