Quotes About King Leopold Ii

#1. Paradoxically, a saint like [Albert] Schweitzer can give one a lot more trouble than King Leopold II, villain of unmitigated guilt, because along with doing good and saving African lives Schweitzer also managed to announce that the African was indeed his brother, but only his junior brother.

Chinua Achebe

#2. The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can't fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly.

Caroline Kepnes

#3. A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it,

Meir Shalev

#4. Take your pick. It literally could be any one of those things and many, many more. It's hard to live a morally good life when you have a propensity for shenanigans.

T.J. Klune

#5. She smoothed down my hair and kissed my cheek. I suddenly felt like I was five years old again. I closed my eyes, relishing the feeling. I'd been feeling too old lately.

Aprille Legacy

#6. I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

Dee Dee Ramone

#7. Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Heraclitus

#8. I just . . . it's sometimes hard not to associate moving forward with forgetting the past," I said.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#9. Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem ... Maybe.

Henning Mankell

#10. Be aware of emotional toxins as well as physical toxins. Be aware of what you are thinking. Clear yourself at the end of every day. Try not to go to bed angry or distressed or anxious or jealous or envious.

Gary Zukav

#11. Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#12. I'm just such a good kisser.

Ansel Elgort

#13. I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'.

Ann Voskamp

#14. Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.

Nelson DeMille