Bashir Sultani Quotes & Sayings

The people who believe themselves superior to you will reveal themselves in how they respond to criticism from you. An opinion of anyone carries as much weight as whatever value that person's social currency has. A poor man spouting words more thought provoking than plato would not be credit for his prudence for his social currency and not his wisdom decides the value of his life. — Crystal Evans

Nevertheless statesmen are still greatly exercised by the problem of the international distribution of money. For hundreds of years, the Midas Theory, systematized by Mercantilism, has been the rule followed by governments in taking measures of commercial policy. In spite of Hume, Smith, and Ricardo, it still dominates men's minds more than would be expected. Phoenix-like, it rises again and again from its own ashes. — Ludwig Von Mises

I never thought I'd have a daughter. — Tori Spelling

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong. — Xavier Dolan

Jenny decided that all manifestations of her innocence were futile and appeared defensive. — John Irving

Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a very narrow definition of truth. If something can't be quantified and calculated, then it can't be true. Because this strict scientific approach has explained so much, we assume that it can explain everything. But every method, even the experimental method, has limits. Take the human mind. Scientists describe our brain in terms of its physical details; they say we are nothing but a loom of electrical cells and synaptic spaces. What science forgets is that this isn't how we experience the world. (We feel like the ghost, not like the machine.) It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness. — Jonah Lehrer

Like silver moons the pale narcissi lay — Oscar Wilde

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. — John Dryden

A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves. — Michael Gerber

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite. — Adolf Galland

Love is hard to find, but love is one of a kind. — Trey Songz

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story. — Q-Tip

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering. — Nancy Astor

Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object? — Jasper Johns