Americanah Quotes

#1. What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#2. I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

Aziz Ansari

#3. A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money ... be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.

Moss Hart

#4. Just enough to make up for all the fucking taxes the government took out of my regular paycheck. "Free" counseling. "Free" healthcare. "Free" employment services. "Free" food. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Keep that in mind. Somewhere, somehow, somebody is paying. For everything.

Ken Wheaton

#5. Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Socrates

#6. By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

Jay Leno

#8. You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

Boris Pasternak

#9. My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.

Rodney Dangerfield

#10. You have been asked to take notice of the sayings of dying men - this is mine: that a life spent in the service of God and communion with Him is the most pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.

Matthew Henry

#11. The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.

Tony Benn

#12. It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.

Paul Merton

#13. A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

Horatius Bonar

#15. Despair is anger with no place to go.

Mignon McLaughlin