Darfurs Quotes & Sayings

Mariam always held her breath as she watched him go. She held her breath and, in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second that she didn't breathe God would grant her another day with Jalil. — Khaled Hosseini

Travelers should only read after dark. — Robert Harbison

The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game. — Warren Buffett

I pretty much stay true to myself and try to find the good in people and not be snarky. — Tim Gunn

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps! — Alexandre Dumas

'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career. — Efren Ramirez

The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us to 1000 ppm, is a world not merely of endless regional resource wars around the globe. It is a world with dozens of Darfurs. It is a world of a hundred Katrinas, of countless environmental refugees — Joseph J. Romm

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country. — Narendra Modi

Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix. — William J. Clinton

The obstinate practicality of old women pierces and fortifies these families like the steel rods buried in walls of powdery concrete. — Barbara Kingsolver

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own. — Oprah Winfrey

I couldn't care less about politics, the culture wars. My only interest is to get people to care about Darfurs and Rwandas. — Peter Singer

Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I? — Neil Armstrong

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating. — Slavoj Zizek