Returnees From Quotes & Sayings

And shoot, I feel the same rush of power I felt the first time I held a gun. — Veronica Roth

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore. — Michael Birch

Lagos has never been, will never be, and has never aspired to be like New York, or anywhere else for that matter. Lagos has always been undisputably itself, but you would never know this at the meeting of the Nigerpolitan Club, a group of returnees who gather every week to moan about the many ways Lagos is not like New York as though Lagos had never ever been close to being like New York. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What does it take for Republicans to take off the flag pin and say, 'I am just too embarrassed to be on this team'? — Bill Maher

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources. — Jan Egeland

WITCH KILLER - THE HUMAN IS STILL INSIDE HIM — Sarah J. Maas

A man protects his fish from rats by keeping it under a cat's watch. How wise!
Another buys a gun for security reasons, but decides to kill a ghost with it. How smart!
One prays to God for safety, as he climbs a palm tree with sewing thread. How intelligent!
Man does not want the truth, and God does not want lies, yet there is no third option.
One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing. That's pride. Another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. Humility!
Not all that glitters is gold, and not all gold glitters. Watch, with the eyes, and also with the heart.
Just because all things are lawful, don't make them expedient. And because a thing is right doesn't mean it edifies.
With Faith, Wisdom comes highly recommended! — Olaotan Fawehinmi

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well. — Julie Berry

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness. — Elihu Burritt

Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not. — Edward Carey

We're in a world where everything, even a lamp-post, comes to life and grows. Now I wonder what kind of a seed a lamp-post grows from ... — C.S. Lewis

Planned Parenthood does some very good work. But I would defund as long as they're doing abortions. — Donald Trump

It was strange how closely we returnees clung together. We were like a family of orphaned children, split by an epidemic and sent to different care centers. That feeling of an epidemic disease persisted. The people treated us nicely, and cared for us tenderly, and then hurried to wash their hands after touching us. We were somehow unclean. We were tainted. And we ourselves accepted this. We felt it too ourselves. We understood why the civilian people preferred not to look at our injuries. — James Jones

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. — Barry Long

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance. — Jimmy Hoffa

I looked away from his direct gaze and down at the scratched surface of the table. Someone had etched into it RYAN LOVES MEGAN ALWAYS ... I wondered who Ryan and Megan were. And if, wherever they were, they'd made it. I wondered how anyone could have been so sure about a concept so tenuous and impossible as 'always' that they'd be willing to carve it into a tabletop. — Morgan Matson

Guys generally need us to come with subtitles, cue cards, and liability waivers. — Melissa Jensen