Wole Soyinka Quotes

It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

Wole Soyinka

• World
• Believe
• Party
• Fighting
• Achieve
• Salvation

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • World
  • Spiritual
  • Thoughts

• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Numbers

• We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Past
  • Fighting
  • Class

• Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • People
  • Career
  • Diversity

• The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Worst
  • Test

• Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Silence

• I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God
  • Believe
  • Patience

• I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Space

• My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Father
  • Army

• When you're 19, girlfriends are girlfriends. Then you start thinking about the rest of your life and stuff. I don't know; something happens with your glands. Your alimony gland.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

  

  Emm Gryner
  • Music
  • Inspired

• Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Great

• Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

  

  Piers Corbyn

• You're out there on an island. It's just you and the best receiver, man-to-man, in one-on-one coverage a lot of the time. And you don't really get any help. If you get beat, everyone can see. If you get scored on, everyone knows. That's the difficulty of playing corner.

  

  Chris Harris, Jr.
  • Time
  • Help

• It doesn't make sense to have a third party providing something core to our experience.

  

  Chase Carey
  • Experience
  • Sense
  • Providing

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • World
  • Believe
  • Party