Bobber Fishing Quotes & Sayings

It should be noted that even if the high-end estimate of fatalities directly or indirectly attributed to the Boko Haram insurgency were accepted at face value, they would still represent a small percentage of the overall violent deaths that have occurred in Nigeria over that same period of time.... According to UNODC data, Nigeria had 18,422 intentional homicides in 2008, the year after the violently contested elections.... Based on those numbers remaining relatively constant, Boko Haram would constitute approximately 5 per cent of all violent deaths in Nigeria since their peak in fatalities in 2009. — Zacharias Pieri

Always remember, believe in today, believe in tomorrow, believe in yourself, and whatever happens, don't jump. — Bill Kaulitz

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them. — Glen Duncan

My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective. — James Earl Jones

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. — Robert Mugabe

Why shouldn't I be confident? I'm well educated, I can deliver a line, and I have more than three expressions. That's good right? — Sonakshi Sinha

Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves. — Brian Tracy

It's good," Jackson said. "You're just saying that," I replied. "No, really, it's good. A little greasy ... ." "The grease is part of the charm," I pointed out. "Said the heart attack to the clogged arteries." "You're in the South now, boy. Grease is one of the four main food groups. — Nick Wilgus

The weight of his words threatened to undo the tiny string that tied my heart together. — R.S. Grey

I'm not a bad guy. If only I could stop hoping. If only I could say to my heart: Give up. Be alone forever. There's always opera. There's angel-food cake and neighborhood children caroling, and the look of autumn leaves on a wet roof. But no. My heart's some kind of idiotic fishing bobber. — George Saunders

Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found ... Angling's problems are never solved. — Lee Wulff

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop? — Woody Allen

It didn't help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The position of women in SNCC is prone. — Ariel Levy

Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word "justice" into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason ... and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche