Chinua Achebe Quotes

If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside … or in the back yard without a cover, and the cats come over and eat it, whose fault is it---the cat’s or the uncovered meat?

If we permit ourselves to be ill served, to be served by corrupt and incompetent and inefficient men, then on our own head must the blame rest.

I can't go anywhere without Chapstick - the store, the gym, traveling. I'm the one person that's, like, putting it on every two seconds.

I feel like lip balm is something that you need to have. The worst thing ever is having dry lips.

In the house, I have a drawer that's just filled with Carmex. It's just my thing.

If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You don't have the right to demand that someone else take care of you because of your habits.

If you fall on concrete, that's yo ass fault

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

I don't think I'd give advice. That never pays off. That's always a bad idea. If they follow your advice and it doesn't work out, or if they don't follow your advice, somehow you're on the hook for it.

You make problem, you have problem

Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.

Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.

I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.