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Him Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.
- Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she…
- She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
- He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a…
- I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father…
- There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the…
- Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him…
- There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule…
- She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like…
- That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out
- She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden