Abuja Quotes

#1. Lagos was built from blood and sweat, and raw ambition. Abuja was designed as a playground for the rich.

A. Igoni Barrett

#2. My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.

Babatunde Fashola

#3. Evelyn: There's nothing wrong with embracing one's emotions.
Brittany: Mom, You don't just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.

Gena Showalter

#4. Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

Octavio Paz

#5. One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Alastair Reynolds

#6. But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral ... or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.

John Green

#7. You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.

Mother Teresa

#8. A long time ago, I heard a piece of advice that went something like "write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't." And that's what I do...

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.

John Tyler Bonner

#10. Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

Matthew Kelly

#11. The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

Moshe Dayan

#12. Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.

Paulo Coelho

#13. And before you know it, the object disappears, arguments evaporate; no culprit is discovered, the offense ceases to be an offense and becomes a matter of fate, like the toothache which cannot be blamed on anyone, and the only thing that's left is, once again, to bang the wall as hard as you can.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. In general, I wait to be approached. I want to be the one who's hunted, I want to be the one who people take interest in.

Laurel Nakadate