Bahgat Abdelaziz Quotes & Sayings

By the time I could see again, the captain had announced the final descent into Seattle. Couldn't they find a less ominous phrase for it? I don't like flying as it is, even without the implication that before landing I might want to have all my worldly and spiritual affairs in order. — C.E. Murphy

I'd rather be the last runner who saw a cool thing that everyone else missed, than to be a speedy runner who had a miserable experience. — Vanessa Runs

Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too. — Leo Howard

As a precaution, we're making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs. — Larry Page

We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena, and the more wonderful do both the brain events and the mental phenomena become. Promissory materialism is simply a religious belief held by dogmatic materialists ... who often confuse their religion with their science. — John C. Eccles

Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with ... Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being. — Matthew Quick

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change. — Simon Van Booy

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. — Milton Friedman

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools. — Nenia Campbell

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention]. — Peter MacKay

Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self). — Dada Bhagwan

If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own. — Mem Fox

It's not easy to stay with someone you love. But sometimes it's harder to give up and walk away. — Forgottenglimmer

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. — P. J. O'Rourke