Chibane Youssef Quotes & Sayings

I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens. — Jim Jefferies

The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves. — Richard J. Foster

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. — Cornel West

A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity. — Ali Mazrui

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy. — Ian Anderson

A smiling friend was a true friend. — Anna Godbersen

I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need. — Wale

We live by the scars we choose. — L.G. Kelso

But what it was that inscrutable Ahab said to that tiger-yellow crew of his - these were words best omitted here; for you live under the blessed light of the evangelical land. Only the infidel sharks in the audacious seas may give ear to such words, when, with tornado brow, and eyes of red murder, and foam-glued lips, Ahab leaped after his prey. — Herman Melville

Kindness is the basic ingredient for the recipe of happiness. — Vikrmn

The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God. — Cyril Of Jerusalem

Songs of myself
These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they
are not original with me,
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
This the common air that bathes the globe. — Walt Whitman

I really like things I don't understand: when I read a thing I don't understand I feel a sweet and abysmal vertigo. — Clarice Lispector

In the late 1940s, a dystopian novel based on the notorious horrors of 'National Socialism' would probably have been very well-received. But it would have done nothing to shake the complacency of Western intellectuals concerning the system of state terror for which, at the time, so many of them had either a blind spot or a soft spot. — Christopher Hitchens

Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe! — Andrew Jackson