Patrick Lumumba Quotes

Third World is a state of the mind and until we change our attitude as Africans, if there is a fourth, fifth and even sixth world, we will be in it. ~ Patrick L.O. Lumumba

We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use. ~ Patrick L.O. Lumumba

I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win. ~ Patrick L.O. Lumumba

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style. ~ Patrick Ewing

The nymphs in green? Delightful girls.' 'It is clear you have been a great while at sea, to call those sandy-haired coarse-featured pimply short-necked thick-fingered vulgar-minded lubricious blockheads by such a name. Nymphs, forsooth. If they were nymphs, they must have had their being in a tolerably rank and stagnant pool: the wench on my left had an ill breath, and turning for relief I found her sister had a worse; and the upper garment of neither was free from reproach. Worse lay below, I make no doubt. ~ Patrick O'Brian

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed. ~ John Patrick Shanley

Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself. ~ John Patrick Hickey

All governments lie; those that lie the best are those we trust the most ~ Michael Patrick Clark

The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible. ~ Patrick Ness

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again. ~ Patrick Ness

He had been fooled. He had not, after all, had a great time: he had merely been drinking again. ~ Patrick Hamilton

Suspicion is a virtue as long its object is the preservation of public good ~ Patrick Henry

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the instinctive knowledge in the eyes of mules, of the innocent eyes of good men, of the elastic nature of the passions, even of the devotion he had received from some men, and one woman, and dogs. ~ Patrick White

My advice is this, do whatever pleases yourself. These things don't matter. What does matter is that if you have anything worth while in you, any talent, you should deliver it. Nothing must turn you from that. ~ Patrick Kavanagh

Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances. ~ Patrick Duffy

Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better. ~ Patrick Kane

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. ~ Patrick McHenry

Rancid was poor. He didn't seem to know that he was poor, however, and I never had the heart to tell him, because he was the happiest person I'd ever met. If he had known he was poor, of course, then he would have been sad and miserable all the time. As it was, Rancid was able to live out his whole life in blissful ignorance of the fact that he was poor. ~ Patrick F. McManus

I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

Abandoned the weapon because of its propensity to shatter the shoulders of the men pulling its trigger, but in Patrick Harper the seven-barreled gun had found a soldier capable of taming its brute ferocity. The gun was a cluster of seven half-inch barrels which were fired by a single lock, and was, in its effect, like a small cannon loaded with grapeshot. ~ Bernard Cornwell

I think it's just the whole package. I can't pick you apart. I just love all of you. I think I always have. ~ Cat Patrick

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.' ~ Patrick Schwarzenegger

I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enought to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well. ~ Patrick Stewart

Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side. ~ Karen Abbott

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men, ~ Patrick Stewart

What do you want, Patrick?" she sighs.
"I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately. ~ Bret Easton Ellis

Even if I hadn't been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and all of the other guys. Because those were the actors that I really watched every moment of, as opposed to Laurence Olivier. ~ Peter Capaldi

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew. ~ Patrick O'Brian

Love, sorrow, and wealth are the three things that cannot be concealed. ~ Patrick O'Brian

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process. ~ Patrick McHenry

Grenouille's mother, however, perceived the odor neither of the fish nor of the corpses, for her sense of smell had been utterly dulled, besides which her belly hurt, and the pain deadened all susceptibility of sensate impressions. ~ Patrick Suskind

"Government" is the name we give to the things we choose to do together. ~ Deval Patrick

I believe it is the inability of beginning writers to achieve at least a certain degree of detachment from their writing that defeats so many of them before they even get started. Without this distancing, any criticism of your writing will seem devastating, even incapacitating, whereas with the proper amount of detachment it will seem merely cruel and unusual punishment. ~ Patrick F. McManus

I believe that requiring those already in Texas to obtain driver's licenses would ensure they pass a driver's test and meet the requirements to obtain auto insurance. ~ Dan Patrick

He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general.
"It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels". ~ Patrick Carman