Ahkong Quotes & Sayings

Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade. — Henry J. Heinz

Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me what makes skies so blue,
And I'll tell you why I love you.
Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
Tropisms make the ivy twine,
Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,
Testicular hormones are why I love you. — Isaac Asimov

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. — Norman Spinrad

Always remember ... the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.
~ Albert Einstein — Albert Einstein

Believe in your dreams for that is what makes you magical. — Deborah Sue Crews

Whether your mother is a novelist like mine or a third-generation military wife, the idea of a son or daughter being in mortal danger is terrifying. — Elliot Ackerman

You take a different view of your actions when you come to understand, when you are made to understand every day that your existence is necessary - you see, absolutely necessary - to another person. — Joseph Conrad

There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction. — Agnes Varda

the suggestions, strategies, and — John Gray

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out. — Doris Roberts

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson. — Bob Proctor

The best trees produce the sweetest fruits. — Matshona Dhliwayo

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead. — Alvaro De Campos

Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly. — Mehmet Murat Ildan