Achaemenid Quotes & Sayings

Mohammed ignored the abuse. What did Ahmed know? It had been years since anyone had studied music in Paris or Seville on a scholarship paid for by the country's oil profits. The only knowledge people mastered these days was how to steal copper wire and load a gun. Mohammed felt like a relic from a lost civilization, buried in the muck of the Tigris. Sassanid, Seleucid, Sumerian. Achaemenid, Assyrian, Akkadian. He sometimes thought he was the only one who remembered. For what it was worth, he could sing the ancient songs of the pearl divers. — Leslie Cockburn

Pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time. — Josephine Winslow Johnson

If we read the scriptures, we shall escape the evils of sin. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made. — Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

He wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate — Salman Rushdie

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself? — Charles Bukowski

With all its eyes the creature sees the Open. Only our eyes are as though reversed, and placed all around them as traps, encircling their free exit. — Jessica Pierce

start something, with a knowledge to end it. — Krishna Sagar

Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death. Auntie Mame — Patrick Dennis

Holmes cast himself as a demanding contractor. As workers came to him for their wages, he berated them for doing shoddy work and refused to pay them, even if the work was perfect. They quit, or he fired them. He recruited others to replace them and treated these workers the same way. Construction proceeded slowly, but at a fraction of the proper cost. The high rate of turnover had the corollary benefit of keeping to a minimum the number of individuals who understood the building's secrets. A — Erik Larson

I guess short films have a bright future ... The advantage is budget. — Anurag Kashyap

I furrowed my brows at him. What was so amazing about a stick? I could pick one up outside on the way to the car.
Let me guess, you're Harry Potter and this is the school of Hogwarts. If I say Lumos will it light up? — Brandi Salazar

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do. — Charles Kettering

Serve no one with your gift, but all. — Cornelius Elmore Addison

me. They found me. The — Ian Fleming

Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend. — P.G. Wodehouse