Quote by Chinua Achebe
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats t

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats the time to do something about it, not when its around your neck. – Chinua Achebe

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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you dont always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! – Chinua Achebe

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Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe

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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. – Charles Caleb Colton

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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, Ive done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier? – Douglas MacArthur

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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when theyre giving you an enema. – Warren Beatty

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The only reason for time is so that everything doesnt happen at once. – Albert Einstein

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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But Id rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. – Bjork

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In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break werent there when I came back. Its like, Wait a second – what happened here? It was a real learning experience. Ive paid my dues, I will tell you that. – Chris ODonnell

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