Mo Ibrahim Quotes

When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.

Mo Ibrahim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
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  • Birth: May 3, 1946

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Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Andrei Platonov

TruthFeelAliveWithoutAshamed

I'm eager to find the perfect film to shoot during my hiatus from 'Suits'.

Meghan Markle

SuitsPerfectFindShootFilmEager

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

John Updike

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If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

Mohsin Hamid

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Youth re-energises.

Louise Wilson

Youth

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

Jason Alexander

HistoryMeConflictImpossibleFeel

I think people have a responsibility, if they write a letter, to make sure that they saw it themselves and it's not hearsay.

Diane English

ResponsibilityPeopleThinkWrite

Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.

Derek Walcott

PoetryDeadMoreRealSomething

While accepting donations, no one looks at the colour of money.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

MoneyLooksColourAcceptingWhile

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

Pico Iyer

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I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.

Shel Silverstein

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The future is as bright as your faith.

Thomas S. Monson

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