Alanoud Badr Quotes & Sayings

People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences. — Paul Bloom

Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once. — Voltaire

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience. — Khalil Gibran

What happened?"
"You fell."
"Really? What did I fall into?"
"My fist."
"That explains the headache. — Ilona Andrews

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges. — Alexi Giannoulias

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States. — Barbara Mikulski

She used to admire people who stood out, but now she could feel herself wary of them. — Hugh Howey

If to be truthful is to be cruel, then lying must surely be an act of kindness. And so, kindness is a lie. — Wataru Watari

I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started. — Tim Kaine

We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun. — Richard Dawkins

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about. — Alan Bennett

For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home. — Pearl S. Buck