Im Genes De Buenos Quotes & Sayings

When choosing friends, I seek quality, not quantity. — Charles F. Glassman

It's like talking to the Mad Hatter about tea. — Rainbow Rowell

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. — George Meredith

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties. — Noah Feldman

If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential. — John C. Maxwell

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever. — Buchi Emecheta

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K. — Hilary Swank

I've thought all my life, 'Lord Christ in heaven! what did I live for?' Beatings, work! I saw nothing except my husband. I knew nothing but fear! And how Pasha grew I did not see, and I hardly know whether I loved him when my husband was alive. All my concerns, all my thoughts were centered upon one thing - to feed my beast, to propitiate the master of my life with enough food, pleasing to his palate, and served on time, so as not to incur his displeasure, so as to escape the terrors of a beating, to get him to spare me but once! But I do not remember that he ever did spare me. He beat me so - not as a wife is beaten, but as one whom you hate and detest. — Maxim Gorky

Mma Ramotsew accepted her large slice of cake and looked at the rich fruit within it. There were at least seven hundred calories in that, she thought, but it did not matter; she was a traditionally built lady and she did not have to worry about such things. — Alexander McCall Smith