Esbriet Quotes & Sayings

James Ibori gave me $15million as bribe in 2007 — Nuhu Ribadu

Friends are such an impractical idea. Especially for someone as extraordinary as you — Rose Foster

No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies. — John Shelton Reed

In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity ... in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for. — Max Hastings

There are in you two qualities that God loves: clemency [al-hilm] and forbearance [al-ana, "nobleness," "tolerance"]. — Tariq Ramadan

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke. — Charles Dickens

Leadership is having a point of view. — Roger Enrico

Spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ... — John Geddes

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way. — Henry David Thoreau

If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do. — Gloria Steinem

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. — Anais Nin

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat. — Kirstie Alley

A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond anger. It can try, but it can never go beyond. A split personality can never go beyond sex. It can fight. So many monks in the monasteries are doing it. They don't go beyond sex; at the most their sexuality becomes perverted, their love becomes poisoned. — Rajneesh

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. — Billy Sunday