Ayyan Quotes & Sayings

Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn't it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, "devil"?8 — Peter J. Leithart

I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked. — Sophia Bush

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors. — Edward Norton

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best. — Winston Churchill

Although the testimony of my mother's life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die. — Billy Graham

I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves. — Laozi

From what Ayyan had heard of the battles of the Brahmins, it would be bloodless but brutal. They would fight like demons armed with nothing more than deceit and ideals - another form of deceit among men from good families. — Manu Joseph

Ayyan had developed the habit of reading anything in front of him, even if it was something he did not really understand, because he believed that one reason why everybody was here, including the sons of municipal sweepers, was to collect as much information as possible before dying with a funny look on the face. — Manu Joseph

If we want to write, it makes sense to read - and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would. — Francine Prose

The first mover is the mind.

- Master Wei
Priest of the K'un Lun — Joseph J. Bailey

I am an absolute pacifist ... It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting. — Albert Einstein

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't. — Ayn Rand

Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man's work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes. — Neal Stephenson

What a dog I got, he found out we look alike, so he killed himself. — Rodney Dangerfield

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government. — Thomas Jefferson

I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home. — Margaret Atwood