Arjmandpub Quotes & Sayings

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Why should the illiterate man have this power, which the learned man has not? The illiterate one, through faith in Christ, has come into the atmosphere of pure, clear truth, while the learned man has turned away from the truth. — Ellen G. White

And they didn't like to pay with trust and love, but rather with money and goods. They betrayed each other and expected being betrayed themselves. — Hermann Hesse

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast. — John Steinbeck

When I go out, people look at me with a puzzled expression on their faces thinking, "You're Jackie Chan?" When people stare at me, it makes me uncomfortable. More and more I find that I just stay in my hotel when I am working. — Jackie Chan

One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slower, more idle moments - not only can they feel expansive, they feel lived-in; the unhurried pacing often makes the endings even more resonant and surprising for me. — Molly Antopol

I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship. — Nancy Pelosi

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science. — Steven Spielberg

Your grace, come back, Senor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep ! — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war. — Nonito Donaire

Kurt went from an unknown to icon of a generation. It was like crashing your car and having everyone cheer you on as you crawl out of the wreck. — Nicolas Otero

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered. — Thomas Henry Huxley

I was raised to assume that wealth and rank and privilege would be mine by right," he said painfully. "Through a combination of bad luck and bad judgment, most of those assumptions were beaten out of me. While other young gentlemen raced horses and chased opera dancers, I learned that the world grants no rights beyond the chance to struggle for survival." His mouth twisted. "In the army I was flogged, wore rags, and damned near starved to death. I was forced to face every flaw and weakness in myself, and to learn the harsh lesson that men born to whores and raised in the gutter could be stronger, braver, and more honorable than I — Mary Jo Putney

Here was where she had learned this skill all those years ago, where she had learned how good it felt to run away. — Hugh Howey

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices. — Ron Wyden