Bahgat Korany Quotes & Sayings

All of us are called to fight # humantraffickin g and # slavery . — Pope Francis

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream. — Lucille Roybal-Allard

Sexual organs are the root of all evil. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Just because you're aware that you're a nincompoop, doesn't make you any less of one. — Michael Kroft

I've always thought of myself as a realist. I can remember fighting with my professors about it in grad school. The world that I live in consists of 250 advertisements a day and any number of unbelievably entertaining options, most of which are subsidized by corporations that want to sell me things. The whole way that the world acts on my nerve endings is bound up with stuff that the guys with the leather patches on their elbows would consider pop or trivial or ephemeral. I use a fair amount of pop stuff in my fiction, but what I mean by it is nothing different than what other people mean in writing about trees and parks and having to walk to the river to get water 100 years ago. It's just the texture of the world I live in. — David Foster Wallace

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. — Gene Fowler

Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process. — Frederick Lenz

Just sayin' you got a hot nature, little girl. Quick to anger, quick to lust. Some people are just like that - hot-blooded. — Evangeline Anderson

She was a kinswoman of the queen, a member of the most powerful family in England. A Boleyn. — V.E. Lynne

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally. — Alexander Chee

Since the 1980s, I've been known more for my TV work, I used to host 'Live at Jongleurs' and of course 'Grumpy Old Men,' and so it's really all come from there. It's been a funny career really, there are people that know me now as a TV person, a comedian, an interviewer - I've had people genuinely gobsmacked to find out I am a musician. — Rick Wakeman

Letting go of sorrow gives you enough strength to carry happiness.
Letting go of anger gives you enough strength to carry kindness.
Letting go of fear gives you enough strength to carry hopefulness.
Letting go of resentment gives you enough strength to carry gratefulness.
Letting go of disappointment gives you enough strength to carry joyfulness.
Letting go of avarice gives you enough strength to carry contentedness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods and vermin is ideology. — Terry Eagleton

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself. — Matt Chandler