Onye Quotes

#1. We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.

Chinua Achebe

#2. Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the refrain might not actually have flogged the children to death.

Chinua Achebe

#3. Time is your most valuable possession.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

Christopher Titus

#5. We all have guilt. It just can't be all that we have.

Suzanne Young

#6. It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

David Cameron

#7. Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It's really more about logic than imagination.

Massimo Vignelli

#8. All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone." The Time Between

Karen White

#9. Now the baby's in the trash heap balling.

Tupac Shakur

#10. All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.

Nicole Richie

#11. No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

Yitzhak Rabin

#12. US Energy Information Agency announced the availability of a new mapping tool that details the flood risk faced by our existing energy infrastructure. The map has icons located on sites like distribution terminals and power plants and allows users to overlay the existing flood risk on those sites.

Anonymous

#13. The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

Ida B. Wells

#14. I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Elie Tahari

#15. I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

Valentino Garavani

#16. I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions ... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Colin Firth

#17. I didn't cry, because, actually, I was an intercontinental ballistic missile, with an atomic warhead; they don't cry. Why

Annie Dillard