Nherera Quotes & Sayings

When human beings are involved, statistics become a frightful game that I cannot play. People have said to me: 'But what are a few dozen casualties compared to the whole population?' 'Does it matter that a few churches have burned down since the city has survived?' These measurements I reject. The kingdom of man is not to be surveyed in this way. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. — Cormac McCarthy

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated. — Helen M. Luke

A Writer is a writer, no matter what s/he writes. — Gabriella Slade

There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m'lords," he thundered. "The King in the North! — George R R Martin

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world. — Frederick Lenz

A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy. — Ludwig Von Mises

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance. — George Gillespie

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship. — George Pataki

Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning. — Stefan Themerson

Do you feel that, baby? That's your man moving inside you. — Tessa Bailey

One man's mistake can capsize a whole ship of people."
"True. — Yiyun Li