Behboodi Dariush Quotes & Sayings

I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death. — Kerry Greenwood

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say. — Margaret Thatcher

Over more than a decade, Iran had moved ahead with its nuclear program. And before the deal, it had installed nearly 20,000 centrifuges that could enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb. — Barack Obama

You cannot lose if you have learned one new lesson.
You cannot lose if you have helped one new person.
You cannot lose if you have overcome one new obstacle. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh. — Austin O'Malley

I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays. — Christian McKay

All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone. — William Cullen Bryant

The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

What could you do to make a difference in the world? — Les Brown

The cycle begins with the false belief system shared by all addicts: that no one could want them or love them as they are. In fact, addicts can't love themselves. They are an object of scorn to themselves. This deep internalized shame gives rise to distorted thinking. The distorted thinking can be reduced to the belief, "I'll be okay if I drink, eat, have sex, get more money, work harder, etc." The shame turns one into what Kellogg has termed a "human doing," rather than a human being. Worth is measured on the outside, never on the inside. The mental obsession about the specific addictive relationship is the first mood alteration, since thinking takes us out of our emotions. — John Bradshaw

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time! — Hannah Cowley

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human. — Elizabeth McCracken