#aid

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#fun #i #know #lifts #place

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#been #before #book #career #case

I've always said I'm going to get married only once. ↗

— Joe Namath

#get #get married #going #i #married

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

#because #likely #never #never stop #stop

What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#before #border #diego #doing #enforcement

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#get #more #paid #people #sitting

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#contradict #goes #i #improve #me

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#dirty #down #father #find #get

Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off. ↗

— David Naughton

#hard #hard work #i #off #paid

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#convinced #days #fear #i #instead