Wole Soyinka Quotes

It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.

Wole Soyinka

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• You can't choose up sides on a round world.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • Choose

• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Country
  • Cooperation
  • Depend

• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • End
  • Fight
  • Development

• I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Breathe

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Feel
  • Say
  • I Can

• There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Nothing

• I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Long
  • Proud
  • Overcome

• It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Overcome
  • Mental Illness

• If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods their treasures yield;A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Live
  • Heart

• Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Art
  • Together

• Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Up
  • Age
  • Wise

• I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Believe
  • Tree

• There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Earth

• So it's gonna be foreverOr it's gonna go down in flames.You can tell me when it's overIf the high was worth the pain.Got a long list of ex-lovers,They'll tell you I'm insane.'Cause you know I love the players,And you love the game.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • High
  • Game

• Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

  

  Mason Cooley

• There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

  

  Jenna-Louise Coleman
  • Time

• It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • Fitness

• Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

  

  Kiana Tom
  • People
  • Career
  • Health

• Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Success
  • Candle
  • Match

• I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Baseball

• Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Money
  • Teach
  • Economy

• It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Interest
  • Integrity
  • Productivity