Bashir Badr Quotes & Sayings

I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there. — Toby Stephens

Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and music from the other rooms into a state of vague ecstasy, while he contemplated the small sheet of water outside the window. It was that happy frame of mind into which his people could project themselves so easily - the mere absence of immediate unpleasant preoccupation could start it off, and a landscape which included the sea, a river, a fountain, or anything that occupied the eye without engaging the mind, was of use in sustaining it. It was the world behind the world, where reflection precludes the necessity for action, and the calm which all things seek in death appears briefly in the guise of contentment, the spirit at last persuaded that the still waters of perfection are reachable. — Paul Bowles

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary.She knew how to hit to a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint if day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty.It is then that the plight of being alive becomes attenuated to its least possible dimensions. — Thomas Hardy

Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control. — Kim Wilde

This was another fossil of a joke. I couldn't remember where it'd come from, I had a horrible feeling it might have been me. — Alexis Hall

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep. — Youssou N'Dour

You've got to take the hems down, especially past 50. I don't care how good your legs are. — Andie MacDowell

When there is no way, you must make a way. — Kelly Creagh

Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful for the time to prepare and learn to harness it. — Tom Althouse

Unless you're continually improving your skills, you're quickly becoming irrelevant. — Stephen Covey

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great. — Edward Snowden

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink. — George Jones

People don't start wars, governments do. — Ronald Reagan

Physical science, through the medium of inventions, is useful to innumerable people who are wholly ignorant of it; thus the study of physical science is to be recommended, not only, or primarily, because of the effect on the student, but rather because of the effect on mankind in general. Thus utility does not belong to philosophy. If the study of philosophy has any value at all for others than students of philosophy, it must be only indirectly, through its effects upon the lives of those who study it. — Bertrand Russell

I think, perhaps, you are more free than I am. — Maryann Austin