Quotes About Emperor Haile Selassie

#1. I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

Jack Kingston

#2. Slit my skull open. Know what it'll be like? Like slitting open the guts of a great white shark. Stuff'll come out like you wouldn't fucking believe.

Philip Ridley

#3. There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

Linda Hogan

#4. The same arts that did gain
A power, must it maintain.

Andrew Marvell

#5. My life is too valuable to remain shielded and protected behind the coziness and comfort of security.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#6. We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.

John P. Kotter

#7. Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#8. The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity ... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace

Haile Selassie

#9. I wanted to curse the maker for not completing the female cast with a delete slash purge button when it came to men.

Nicole Williams

#10. It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.

Michelle Yeoh

#11. Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.

Corey Ford

#12. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

Maria Shriver

#14. Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#15. My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out.

Henry Rollins

#16. Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

Alain De Botton

#17. Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man's Land.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Dogs, ye have had your day!

Alexander Pope

#19. You're no help, he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

Neil Gaiman