Top 23 Helon Habila Quotes
#1. And I too am not myself, hoping for refuge in a metaphor that will contain it all.
Helon Habila
#2. A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.
Laura Schlessinger
#3. She opened her arms to the black bat and they flew to each other, embracing in the air like long-lost souls. This is love, Ursula thought. And the practice of it makes it perfect.
Kate Atkinson
#4. I wanted to say, with as much sarcasm as I could put into my voice, "Sir, your poem is both original and interesting, but the part that is interesting is not original, and the part that is original is not interesting." But all I said was, "Not bad, you need to work on it some more.
Helon Habila
#5. So your question, are we happy here? I say how can we be happy when we are mere wanderers without a home?
Helon Habila
#6. Surprisingly, I felt no anger towards him. He was just Man. Man in his basic, rudimentary state, easily moved by powerful emotions like love, lust, anger, greed, and fear, but totally dumb to the finer, acquired emotions like pity, mercy, humour, and justice.
Helon Habila
#7. Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles, it is literature that always wins the war.
Helon Habila
#8. Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.
Maeve Binchy
#9. The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.
Billy Graham
#10. This was soul calling to soul. A tired, trapped lock at last meeting the key that unlocks it.
Helon Habila
#11. Can you continue to love a person regardless of such shortcomings? Maybe because you hope to save them? Or because you can't help it? Isn't that what love is all about?
Helon Habila
#12. You must take a year off, one of these days, before you're old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you'll see the world in a different way.
Helon Habila
#13. According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible ... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#14. No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.
Abhijit Naskar
#15. I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time.
Betty Who
#16. Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee
#17. David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
Rachel Perry
#18. Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.
Anais Nin
#19. One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
D.T. Suzuki
#20. To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.
Dee Brown
#21. I had a fundamental love of fashion, of products and accessories. I loved the merchandising side of it and understanding how to maximize sales.
Marie-Chantal Claire
#22. But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.
Herman Melville
#23. The quickest and easiest way to improve your health and mood is by taking omega 3 supplements, in the form of fish oils or flaxseed. Add a good general multivitamin and mineral daily as well, as this will ensure that any trace deficiencies causing health or mood problems are addressed.
Liz Miller
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