Ahmadu Bello Quotes

The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.

Ahmadu Bello

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Media

• Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Fool

• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Done
  • Best

• My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Talent

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Feel
  • Theater
  • Favorite

• When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Nice

• I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Want
  • Team
  • Interest

• The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Why
  • Job
  • Should

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • You
  • Peace
  • Popularity

• The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Difficult
  • View
  • Lightning

• I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Men
  • Rule
  • Pictures

• I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Space

• My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • People
  • Lost
  • Search

• My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

  

  Paulina Rubio
  • Music
  • Power
  • Girl

• You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Power
  • Wells
  • Hungry

• I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, how to behead, how to fire, this would be Afghanistan.

  

  Najibullah Quraishi
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Know
  • Change

• The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.

  

  Ahmadu Bello
  • Power
  • Future
  • Control