Behrami West Quotes & Sayings

It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are good is beside the point. If you think you're getting an apple, a tomato will revolt you. That New York should be nicknamed the Big Apple, that an apple is the fruit of humankind's first error and the expulsion from paradise, that America and paradise have been linked and confused ever since Europeans first hit its shores, makes the story reverberate as myth. — Siri Hustvedt

My father was a saint, I'm not. — Indira Gandhi

Only a vision - that is what one must have. — Ernst Haas

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise? — Confucius

And though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say. — Natalie Goldberg

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals ... — Edward Gibbon

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world. — Thomas Heatherwick

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. — Robert Ballard

The character of a generation is moulded by personal character. — Brooke Westcott

I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day! — Les Miles

Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity - the drunk kind, the king who will yell the worst nationalist's ideas. In front of those, it is very difficult to be a dignified woman. — Orlan

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil. — Timothy Noah

When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me. — Alice Walker