Abolghassem Alizadeh Quotes & Sayings

What this letter does is bring us into an atmosphere in which the institution could only wilt and die. — F.F. Bruce

Jeremy Spencer, always religious to an obsessive degree, had disappeared hours before a show while on tour with Fleetwood Mac in the U.S. According to band lore, it had happened right here in Los Angeles in 1971. He walked out of the band's hotel room announcing, "Just going out to a bookstore", and never returned. Somewhere on Hollywood Boulevard he climbed into a van belonging to members of a religious group who called themselves the Children of God. After a long, frantic search involving the police and close friends, Jeremy was finally tracked down to a ramshackle house that was the headquarters of the Children of God. He'd become a full-fledged member of a religious group that some would label a cult. And there he stayed. He refused to come back to either Fleetwood Mac or his wife and children, choosing instead to join a group of religious fanatics and leave all that he had ever known behind. And now he was standing in — Carol Ann Harris

Often the trouble with magical things. They're never quite what you'd expect. — Lloyd Alexander

The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament ... Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket. — Helen Hunt Jackson

I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me. — Romain Gary

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. — Salman Rushdie

I am living life daringly. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses. — Edsger Dijkstra

Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Compassion and love, that's all. — Ram Dass

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show. — Maxim Knight

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities. — Alexandre Dumas

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt. — Polly Berrien Berends