Dimuqratiyyat Quotes & Sayings

Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker. — Laurell K. Hamilton

If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people that you - companies that you deal with. — Robert F. Engle

The stitches in my forehead itched, loud noises made me jump, and I'd been wearing the same socks for three days in a row. Everyone — Scott Westerfeld

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern. — Keith Richards

Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system became so pervasive that the Tunisian scholar Larbi Sadiki described countries who used it as dimuqratiyyat al-khubz - "democracies of bread." But the problem with this system of offering bread in exchange for genuine democracy is that it can never last - sooner or later, the bread will run out, and people will start demanding bread and roses too. — Annia Ciezadlo

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are. — Mahbod Seraji

When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope. — Fuminori Nakamura

Shoot first, ask questions last. That's how these so called gangsta's last. — Waka Flocka Flame

I have a feeling of - wanting to confront my enemies. No, of wanting to confront the enemy part of my friends. — James Kirkwood Jr.

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on." — Norman Vincent Peale

Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow. — James Freeman Clarke

Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely. — Rob Sheffield

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief; ... — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm like the queen of planning and scheduling and I'm trying very hard to stop it. I just want to finish what I'm doing and go home. I want to have a weekend. I want to have breakfast, a stack of pancakes. — Sandra Bullock

what's life without a little risk — J.K. Rowling