Exalar Fish Quotes & Sayings

Eventually, I came to understand that a group of people who wield enormous power happen, oddly enough, to espouse some of the very same ideals imparted to me by people in Africa and central Asia who have no power at all. The reason for this, in my view, is that members of the armed forces have worked on the ground-in many cases, during three or four tours of duty-on a level that very few diplomats, academicians, journalists, or policy makers can match. And among other things, this experience has imbued soldiers with the gift of empathy. — Greg Mortenson

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz. — Chris Barber

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still. — Zhuangzi

I do think it's getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable. The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world's putting out at you. — Adrian Tomine

Art is about the moment we haven't experienced yet. — Sharon Pomerantz

All matters being spiritual; man or woman can only find peace when peace is realized from within. — T.F. Hodge

The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise. — Victor Hugo

I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing. — David Weigel

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving. — George Washington

There is no doubt that the planet is going through a transformation where all of us are learning to recognize our wholeness. The soul is being grounded in a new way. As we bring love into all things we transform the planet into a higher vibration. — Dorothy Maclean

I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country. — Hosni Mubarak

I can't take the chance that she'll leave, and I feel that this moment is tentative, like a wild bird has just landed on my shoulder. — J. Lincoln Fenn

You must be very embarrassed," I heard myself say.
He snorted and tightened his grip. "I hardly find slicing E'than'i'el open embarrassing. And you have other things to worry about. Like the fact that, over the long years of my exile, I have developed a taste for human hearts."
"Right. Of course." I took a deep, steadying breath. "I only meant that I would die of shame if I had thousands of years of pictures of me in a diaper with feather dusters on my back. — Vicki Keire