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BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I love playing with words and texture.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.
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I AM TIMEPIECE The internet has too much information out there for you to ask a dumb question
I AM TIMEPIECE I am no longer a rare breed, I am an endangered species
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I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.
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ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
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The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema...
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...
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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo...
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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
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He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie...
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Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
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Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
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Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
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I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
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Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
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Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
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The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.
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'Twas God the word that spake it,
He took the bread and brake it,
And what the word did make i...
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If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen...
ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an...
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If we still advise we shall never do.
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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
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Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ...
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The word must is not to be used to princes.
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The end crowneth the work.
ELIZABETH I![]()
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I![]()
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
ELIZABETH I![]()
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
ELIZABETH I![]()
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea...
ELIZABETH I![]()
God forgive you, but I never can.
ELIZABETH I![]()
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that ...
ELIZABETH I![]()
The past cannot be cured.
ELIZABETH I![]()
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
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I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
ELIZABETH I![]()
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a pe...
ELIZABETH I![]()
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to th...
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I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
ELIZABETH I![]()
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and o...
ELIZABETH I![]()
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
ELIZABETH I![]()
All my possessions for a moment of time.
ELIZABETH I You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words.
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As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have ...
ELIZABETH I![]()
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
ELIZABETH I![]()
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dan...
ELIZABETH I
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she wo...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in ...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nige...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that Afr...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dr...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I love playing with words and texture.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Ke...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people an...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an A...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and ...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no lon...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for ...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA A quote isn't a quote until that quote is quotably quoted by and official Quotesman
I AM TIMEPIECE The internet has too much information out there for you to ask a dumb question
I AM TIMEPIECE I am no longer a rare breed, I am an endangered species
I AM TIMEPIECE I wish there was an edit button on Life because sometimes we don't realize the mistakes we've made u...
I AM TIMEPIECE Life are full of memories, capture them
I AM TIMEPIECE I don't fit in because I was born to stand out
I AM TIMEPIECE
I am the most well-known homosexual in the world. ELTON JOHN I have learned that I am a one-woman man.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
STANISLAUS I
Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma... BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I
One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su... I CHING
The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema... I CHING
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p... I CHING
Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o... I CHING
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de... I CHING
The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru... I CHING
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re... I CHING
The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo... I CHING
A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then... I CHING
He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie... I CHING
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a... ELIZABETH I
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you... ELIZABETH I
I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e... ELIZABETH I
Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. CHARLES I
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy... BAUDOUIN I
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ... ELIZABETH I
Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t... I CHING
In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ... FAROUK I
Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. CHARLES I
The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow. ELIZABETH I
'Twas God the word that spake it,
He took the bread and brake it,
And what the word did make i... ELIZABETH I
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen... ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. ELIZABETH I
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. ELIZABETH I
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an... ELIZABETH I
If we still advise we shall never do. ELIZABETH I
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst. ELIZABETH I
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ... ELIZABETH I
The word must is not to be used to princes. ELIZABETH I
The end crowneth the work. ELIZABETH I
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. ELIZABETH I
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. ELIZABETH I
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. ELIZABETH I
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea... ELIZABETH I
God forgive you, but I never can. ELIZABETH I
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that ... ELIZABETH I
The past cannot be cured. ELIZABETH I
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. ELIZABETH I
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything. ELIZABETH I
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a pe... ELIZABETH I
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to th... ELIZABETH I
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. ELIZABETH I
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and o... ELIZABETH I
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. ELIZABETH I
All my possessions for a moment of time. ELIZABETH I You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words.
EYDEN I.
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have ... ELIZABETH I
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. ELIZABETH I
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dan... ELIZABETH I
