Abolhasani Quotes & Sayings

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home. — Rumi

The outward expression of empathy is courtesy. — Stewart Butterfield

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine. — Mark Haddon

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? — Quentin Crisp

War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon. — Miles Cameron

The thing about life is that life gets in the way. — Al Daltrey

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society. — George Soros

I remember Cannae," she said, raising her head, "when we thought all was lost. Carthage had defeated us, and there were those who gave up hope. Yet we survived, by our fortitude, and by believing that we should endure. There are times, Marcus, when courage is all you have."
I looked down at the stone floor, chastened into silence by her cold, stern words. This was her way, as it had always been. It was the Roman way. Grief was an indulgence; and though she surely suffered, her suffering was for her alone. It seemed hard, but she had come from a hard family, brave men and brave women who through the generations had survived by facing down hardship and loss. Of all her long line of ancestors, she was not going to be the one to break.
And nor, I decided, was I. — Paul Waters

Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability. — Gretchen Rubin

Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first — Alexander Wang

Peaceful society, peaceful world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and, because of that, it's not the kind of career you can jump into in your 40s or 50s. The ship sets sail by then. — Pete Ploszek