Aklilu Micael Quotes & Sayings

When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince. — Isabel Allende

I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. — Douglas Coupland

We live with the scars we choose. — Shannon L. Alder

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw. — Ken Buck

For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm. — Siegfried Sassoon

Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy. — John F. Kerry

It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it? — Sean Bean

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.' — Sheldon Richman

Actually, Mr. Jack is not about anger, it's about how, perhaps the most heinous of crimes is to deny ourselves and live vicariously through others. — Mick Lexington

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small. — Isabel Allende

Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few things I've discovered about writing is to form a habit that becomes an addiction so that if you don't put something down on paper every day, you get really mean and awful with withdrawal symptoms, and your wife and your dog and your kids are going to kick your ass until you get back to it because they can't bear you in that state of mind. — Frank Pierson

Of what I know of life, in any moment, you run three vital risks-the risk of being yourself, the risk of not being yourself and the risk
itself. I would stress most on the third kind. It is the game itself that draws its modest players inward. The "risk" to hide out in a world where masks are normative, the "risk" to play the oppressor, the
"risk" to risk your truth one more day in life, the "risk" to not risk your lie. — Simran Keshwani