Farxiya Quotes & Sayings

We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know. — Charlie Norwood

The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now. — Carol Moseley Braun

We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see. — Craig Venter

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind. — Alexander McCall Smith

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. — Frank Gehry

I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors ... who specialize in terrorism. — Barack Obama

Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this. — Wendell Berry

Make thought a whirlwind. — Victor Hugo

I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day. — Jane Bowles