Begabon Quotes & Sayings

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons. — Napoleon Bonaparte

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ... — John C. Calhoun

I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever. — Samuel Beckett

What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy. — River Phoenix

My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions. It means drawing the spectator to an idea. Look at the modern advertisements. It's contemporary abhinaya. But one who creates should know what has to be completely and what has to be suggestively portrayed. That is ethical aesthetics. The Natyasastra says a production must be such that a family should be able to watch it together. — Padma Subrahmanyam

As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements. — Dada Bhagwan

The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents. — Bob Samples

I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done. — Kofi Annan

wisdom is the ability to cope — Stephen Fry

I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones. — Saul Williams

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code. — Bill Gates

When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia [sic] and bribe the police. — L. Ron Hubbard

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me. — William Herschel

Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks. — Elijah Muhammad

They both had backgrounds in science, and enjoyed similar pastimes such as cycling and CrossFit. — Patrick Kendrick