Farzona Azizova Quotes & Sayings

Rather than setting goals for the number of yes's you are planning to get each week, you set goals for the number of no's you're going to collect. — Richard Fenton

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books. — Johnny Rich

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman. — Chavela Vargas

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup. — Gautama Buddha

[T]he hidden linguistic universe of companianate couples ... rests entirely on one generative phrase: 'Would you please stop doing that. — Laura Kipnis

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America. — Patricia Arquette

Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all — George Orwell

Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums. — Nancy Byrd Turner

Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth. — Manoj Bhargava

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. — James Madison

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue. — John Tillotson