Ashfaque Hasan Quotes & Sayings

Chance favors the prepared mind. — Richard Preston

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example, are today still strongly committed to communal living after practicing it, punctuated only by occasional lapses into private enterprise, for 450 years. The Hutterian rate of membership turnover has been only about 0.0006 per year. — Benjamin Zablocki

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life. — Vannevar Bush

If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment. — E. O. Wilson

I tell you, there was nothing she would not do for her brother. — Rosamund Hodge

Round and round he walked, and so learned a very valuable thing: that no emotion is the final one. — Jeanette Winterson

The United States and Israel have enjoyed a friendship built on mutual respect and commitment to democratic principles. Our continuing search for peace in the Middle East begins with a recognition that the ties uniting our two countries can never be broken. — George W. Bush

With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission. — Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. — Albert Schweitzer

Freud kept himself amused while waiting for God by inhaling glue that was gummed up inside a plastic bag. In mid huff, God rushed through the door, "Oh my God, you have to try this," Freud giggled. "I'm so baked. And dizzy. Actually, I don't feel good at all. — Dylan Callens

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection. — Anais Nin

He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week. — Chelsea Handler

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly. — Aristotle Onassis

As James Lovelock writes, 'Mother Earth' is now an old lady in her sixties, no longer as resilient as she once was. With our conscious actions, we are now measurably shortening her lifespan. — Mark Lynas

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it. — Carol Leifer