“Greatness depends on where you are coming from.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
Source: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
George Orwell book Politics and the English Language
"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Context: Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
This has often been attributed to Sun Tzu and sometimes to Petrarch. It comes most directly from a line spoken by Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola:
My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
Niccolò Machiavelli, who is also sometimes credited, wrote on the subject in The Prince:
It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.
Misattributed
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”
Aristotle Onassis (1906–1975) Greek shipping magnate
Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
“Over the years, those who retain the vitality of a child retain their youth.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Nel corso degli anni, chi conserva la vitalità di un bambino conserva la sua giovinezza.
Source: prevale.net
“Imperfections make us unique in the world.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Le imperfezioni ci rendono unici al mondo.
Source: prevale.net
“My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.”
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
“We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.”
Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer
“The sadness will last forever.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890 http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm <br class="br">Some of the last words Vincent said to Theo, while dying <br class="br">1890s