Elaheh Torkashvand Quotes & Sayings

Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point. — Jeffrey Steele

She was having an outburst with no advance warning. — Jonathan Franzen

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning. — Frederick Lenz

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. — Malcolm X

We've got something special going here. We want to keep it going. You don't have many opportunities like this, and the window of opportunity for us is now. — Drew Brees

How could we have found, who we really are, without education? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older. — Sarah Addison Allen

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up. — Arthur Koestler

Every person living has made mistakes. Those who proceed with living never waste time licking their wounds. New ideas take them the next step of the way." ~ Raymond Charles Barker from The Power of Decision — Amber Foster

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment. — Jonas Mekas

Scared to go onward," Kaladin said, "but terrified to go back to what you were. — Brandon Sanderson

[On her wearing pants:] The greatest sorrows from which women suffer today are those physical, moral and mental ones, that are caused by their unhygienic manner of dressing! The want of the ballot is but a toy by comparison. — Mary Edwards Walker

Locke threw himself at Father Chains, and the man, without hesitation, scooped him up and held him, patting his back until his racking sobs quieted down. — Scott Lynch

For Adams it was especially distressing to witness such conspicuous failure "in the first formation of Government erected by the People themselves on their own Authority, without the poisonous Interposition of Kings and Priests." There was, to be sure, such a thing as "The Cause," but the glorious potency of that concept did not translate to "The People of the United States."16 — Joseph J. Ellis