Bassam Jarrar Quotes & Sayings

Eliminate the mindset of can't! Because you can do anything! — Tony Horton

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace. — J.G. Ballard

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise. — Mahatma Gandhi

Humanity is collectively compelled to take the path of spirit to its inevitable conclusion. — Simon Boylan

In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years. — George Hamilton