Elaraby Portal Quotes & Sayings

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it. — Dennis C. Blair

They were just buying time in scrapes and tatters. — Holly Black

Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message second-hand. One of Israel's fatal mistakes was their insistence on having a human king rather than resting on the theocratic rule of God over them. We can detect a note of sadness in the word of the Lord, 'they have rejected me from being king over them' (1 Sam. 8:7). The history of religion is the story of an almost desperate scramble to have a king, a mediator, a priest, a pastor, a go-between. In this way we do not need to go to God ourselves. Such an approach saves us from the need to change, for to be in the presence of God is to change. — Richard J. Foster

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government. — Taylor Branch

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. — Elizabeth Edwards

If a car came through a window anywhere near me, I'd be freaking out for three days! — Danny Bonaduce

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart ... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay. — Walt Disney

If you knew at the outset what you understood at the end, would you make the same choices, take the same risks, accept the same sacrifices? No. No one would. You can't appreciate the weight of that burden until after you've assumed it. You can't comprehend what it really means. — Barry Eisler

When we will learn to see
There is no you and me but only we
Then in this world peace will be. — Debasish Mridha

Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after a rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. — Seneca.

At the very least, given this symbolic process and its ideological consequences, mass incarceration's racial disparities will rarely provoke a crisis of conscience for those ensconced in white dominant society. To be sure, there will be some white analysts who insist that knowledge of the disparity and the conditions of mass incarceration should generate society-wide shame and so indict a whole society for the indignity and inhumanity that U.S. prison institutions have institutionalized. — Mark Lewis Taylor

Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself. — Henri Bergson

Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn't necessarily communication. — Sharon Gannon

BRANDON: I have a bag of candy. Will bring it right over. NIKKI: You're coming to my house? NOW?!! NIKKI: Brandon? NIKKI: Hello? R U there?! NIKKI: We'll just cook a PB — Rachel Renee Russell

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. — Henry David Thoreau