Dovid Bashevkin Quotes & Sayings

We girls can sometimes be like wild animals, able to sniff out the strongest among us. — Jenny B. Jones

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.' — Neil Peart

A Caution to Everybody
consider the Auk.
Becoming extinct before because he forgot out to fly and could only walk.
Consider Man, who may well become extinct,
Because he forgot how to walk and learned to fly before he thinked. — Ogden Nash

The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

For I believe that part of knowledge is its desire to show itself and its refusal to put up with a merely hidden existence. I find mute knowledge dangerous, for it grows ever more mute and ultimately secret, and must then avenge itself for being secret. — Elias Canetti

Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all. — Talib Kweli

Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore. — Victoria Azarenka

Absolutely. I understand that Miss Piggy is willing to serve as Queen of Scotland if there is a split. So you may want to guard your castles.

Kermit the frog's response to the question on if he agreed with David Bowie on whether Scotland should remain as part of Britain — Kermit The Frog

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited. — C. Wright Mills

Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling. — Brian Holguin

Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library. — Swami Vivekananda

People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves. — Mark Haddon

There is salt and sweet in every life. — Martin Pistorius

In the earlier centuries the upper and lower social classes engaged in homicide at comparable rates. But as the homicide rate fell, it dropped far more precipitously among the upper classes than among the lower ones, an important social change — Steven Pinker