Ahdaf Messi Quotes & Sayings

I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality. — Robert Reich

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss ... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all. — Brad Pitt

I want you to fight for my heart just like I'm going to fight for yours. I don't want a cheap thrill with you. I just want to show you what's real and I want it in return because that's what I've been looking for." "But — Sha Jones

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

You're very naive and innocent, and don't understand a lot of things yet. — Olga Goa

After driving 30-minutes East of Seattle, I expect to see a great bowling alley. But, as we pull into the parking lot, all I see are pot holes, a horse and Amish buggy, and no cars to speak of- broken down or otherwise. Even the building is in shambles, needs painted and looks a bit haunted. The old road sign reading- Flicker Lanes- is half-burnt out. Seeing the building's interior lights on, I'm reassured that the place is open- but then again, maybe they've been left on by mistake. "There's LOTS of NICE bowling alleys in SEATTLE," I said. "Why did we come ALL THIS WAY to go BOWLING?"
"I take it that you've never BEEN here before."
"I don't think ANYONE HAS. I don't even KNOW what PLANET we're on."
"I don't know what PLANET you're on either... but the rest of us are on your ANUS."
I half-smile, marveling at his wittiness. — Giorge Leedy

When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room? — Jose Andres

A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the infraction gives the impression that it is acceptable to be inappropriately attired. The next day it might be badly polished shoes, then uncouth language, showing off and impoliteness. Before one knows it, the rot of disharmony would start to dismantle everything that we know and cherish. — Jasper Fforde

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people. — Robin Williams

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him. — Kevin Bacon

It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah. — Elias Hicks

The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and the idlers, the supporters and the supported, the honest and the dishonest. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the unpaid labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. All laborers should be brothers. — Robert Green Ingersoll

When deciding what to do next, we can always ask: Does this thought, emotion, or behavior bring me closer to or take me further away from my center? — Stephen Gilligan

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us. — Ayn Rand

No man lives in the external truth, among salt and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied walls. — Robert Louis Stevenson