All Quotes

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
‐‐ Robert Southey

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
‐‐ David Mallet

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
‐‐ Robert Burns

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
‐‐ Thomas Brooks

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
‐‐ George MacDonald

Affluence creates poverty.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

Affluence means influence.
‐‐ Jack London

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
‐‐ Ray Charles

Afghan human rights campaigners worry that U.S. forces may be using secret detention sites like the one allegedly at Rish-Khor to carry out interrogations away from prying eyes. The U.S. military, however, denies even having knowledge of the facility.
‐‐ Anand Gopal

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.
‐‐ Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'
‐‐ Richard Engel

Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents.
‐‐ George Packer

Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the United States. But two planes don't even make a Caribbean charter airline, let alone an air force for a country at war.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
‐‐ Hamid Karzai

Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
‐‐ Hamid Karzai

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
‐‐ Lakhdar Brahimi

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.
‐‐ John R. Allen

Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
‐‐ Hamid Karzai

Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.
‐‐ Jack Keane

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.
‐‐ Julia Gillard

Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq.
‐‐ Jack Keane

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Afghanistan's story, backwards or sideways, is not confined to the Americans or the English.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Afghans long ago resigned themselves to this sort of thing. Compromises must be made. Deals with the devil are better than ceaseless butchery. In the exigencies of post-conflict bygones, against the threat of collapse into more terrible bloodletting, the ugliness of realpolitik is the lesser evil.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
‐‐ Carl Honore

Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.
‐‐ Ralph Boston

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke

Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile.
‐‐ Michael Sata

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.
‐‐ Jill Scott

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
‐‐ Marcus Garvey

Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.
‐‐ Li Keqiang

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.
‐‐ Marcus Garvey

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
‐‐ Nas

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.
‐‐ Hugh Masekela

Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.
‐‐ Bruce Wilkinson

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
‐‐ George Ayittey

Africa has no future.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
‐‐ Bono

Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.
‐‐ Djimon Hounsou

Africa is a very dangerous place.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. People spend when they're young.
‐‐ Christoffel Wiese

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.
‐‐ John Prendergast

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.
‐‐ Djimon Hounsou

Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.
‐‐ Claire Denis

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

Africa is not for the weak-hearted: infrastructure issues are there. The middle class is absent in most of the countries. We have to cater to the low end of the market to grow.
‐‐ Sunil Mittal