Elelaehf Quotes & Sayings

Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman. — Ban Ki-moon

There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods. — Michel De Montaigne

People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men. — Sue Miller

Guys who are unavailable are actually a dream come true for me because I'm unavailable all the time. It's great they're not down your throat. — Leighton Meester

I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[H]istory, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot. — Paul Murray

I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga. — Dharma Mittra

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss. — Charles Caleb Colton

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism. — Rick Moranis

Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part ... Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed. — Sarah Mlynowski

Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline. — Saint Augustine

She wanted to live. She was vehemently impatient - she did not clearly know for what - to do, to be, to experience. And experience was slow in coming. All the world about her seemed to be - how can one put it? - in wrappers, like a house when people leave it in the summer. The blinds were all drawn, the sunlight kept out, one could not tell what colors these gray swathings hid. She wanted to know. And there was no intimation whatever that the blinds would ever go up or the windows or doors be opened, or the chandeliers, that seemed to promise such a blaze of fire, unveiled and furnished and lit. Dim souls flitted about her, not only speaking but it would seem even thinking in undertones ... During — H.G.Wells

I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up. — Harvey Pekar

Let's live to believe leaving all lies behind — Munia Khan