Miechunka 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

Some enmities conceal themselves beneath a mask, some under a kiss. — Publilius Syrus

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them. — William Henry Hudson

In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. — Woodrow Wilson

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them. — George D. Prentice

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again. — Sue Monk Kidd

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like. — Isaac Mizrahi

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people. — Anne Tyler

A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction. — Sathya Sai Baba

... just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story. — Miriam Toews

Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag? — Paula Scher