Barakzai Tribe Quotes & Sayings

Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers. — Scilla Elworthy

People often need to suspend their self-promotion, and have someone in their lives they do not need to impress. This explains dog ownership. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be. — Bo Bennett

I'm a grinder. I am not called to speak at fancy conventions in five-star hotels. The governor has not offered me black robes and elevated me to the bench. I am not interviewed by CNN to comment on the latest trial of the century. And I am not rich. — Paul Levine

After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way." — Johnny Cash

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else. — Mackenzie Astin

The way to really scale a venture firm is with software. — Sam Altman

I was adored once too. — William Shakespeare

the air had that magically still quality common in autumn. The whole world felt crisp and bright, and time seemed suspended. — Deborah Harkness

If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours. — Tariq Ramadan

Loyalty was their way of life. — Sophia Bar-Lev

It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young. — Bruce Forsyth

Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup. — Ron Darling

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world. — Dave Matthews

We must admit that he had eyes like drenched violets, so large that the water seemed to have brimmed in them and widened them; and a brow like the swelling of a marble dome pressed between the two blank medallions which were his temples. — Virginia Woolf