"People say that if you find water rising……" — Chinua Achebe
"People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck."
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Chinua Achebe
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162 Quotes by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe has 162 quotes on this site.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to…
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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More Ankle Quotes
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I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn…
— Kobe Bryant
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In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I'll add a nice…
— Alessandra Ambrosio
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Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit
— Drake
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Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour,…
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.
— Lee Hendrie
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Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.
— Randall Cobb
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The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in…
— Ozzie Newsome
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It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little…
— Nia Long
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In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to…
— Andrew Flintoff
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PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want…
— Anthony Bourdain
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She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a…
— Judith Martin
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