Abacha President Quotes & Sayings

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other. — Majora Carter

When you're lost, admit it, and ask for directions. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

My father owned a music store when I was growing up in Rock Falls, Illinois. He could play all the instruments, which you had to do when you owned a music store back then. One day, when I was three years old, he took me to a parade. When the drums passed by, I got so excited I told him wanted to learn to play them. — Louie Bellson

So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about. — Nick Hornby

My disgraceful, wicked heart, thought Amy, is braver than the world. For a moment it seemed to Amy that there was nothing in the world she could not meet and vanquish. And though she knew this to be the most foolish idea, it excited and emboldened her further. — Richard Flanagan

I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely, or to let my guard down, so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him. — Colleen Houck

Someone is going to hate what you do. That's not a maybe. That's a definite. And I don't mean dislike. I mean hate. With energy and vitriol and a passion that surprises you. — Jon Acuff

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul and all that jazz. — Leah Raeder

She swallowed it down and willed her heart to settle. This was an important moment. For the first time she could introduce herself how she wanted. She got to define her own self. And no one was going to stop her. "Ella," she said quietly, as if saying out loud what had been only in her head for so long would break it further. — S.T. Lynn

Americans despise cowards," Patton continued all those months ago, putting his own spin on U.S. history. "Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American. — Bill O'Reilly

No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself. — Glen Duncan

Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out. — Tupac Shakur

Hich should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it. — Clive Barker

How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.) — Kate Atkinson