Assaad Naoum Quotes & Sayings

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

If you are truly merciful, then when what is yours is unjustly taken, don't be sad inside, and do not tell of our loss to your neighbor. Let a better loss, inflicted by those who insult you, be absorbed by your mercy. — Isaac Of Nineveh

I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too? — Charles Spurgeon

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns

Trilateralists look forward to a pseudo postnational age in which social, economic, and political values originating in the trilatleral regions are transformed into universal values. Expanding networks of like-minded governmental officials, businessmen, and technocrats - elite products of Western civilization - are to carry out national and international policy formation. Functionally specific institutions with 'more technical focus, and lesser public awareness' [italics mine] are best suited for addressing international issues in the trilateral model. Trilateralists call this decision making process 'piecemeal functionalism.' No comprehensive blueprints would be proposed and debated, but bit and bit the overall trilateral design would take shape. Its 'functional' components are to be adopted in more or less piecemeal fashion, lessening the chance people will grasp the overall scheme and organize resistance. — Holly Sklar

I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded, — Edward Snowden

Its just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can't even imagine and has gone through horror that I can't even imagine. — Angelina Jolie

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them. — Joe Louis

True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice. — Mas Oyama

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. — Lord Chesterfield

I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays. — J.C. Ryle

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep. — Mary Roberts Rinehart