Fitsum Beraki Quotes & Sayings

Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere. — Annalee Newitz

To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking. — Lou Reed

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life. — Upton Sinclair

Poets ... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. — Archibald MacLeish

When I looked around me, fate seemed to be the only explanation for what was happening. — Ji-li Jiang

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight. — Joan D. Vinge

As the last dish of confections was removed a weird pageant swept across the further end of the banqueting-room: Oberon and Titania with Robin Goodfellow and the rest, attired in silks and satins gorgeous of hue, and bedizened with such late flowers as were still with us. I leaned forward to commend, and saw that each face was brown and wizened and thin-haired: so that their motions and their wedding paean felt goblin and discomforting; nor could I smile till they departed by the further door.
("The Basilisk") — R. Murray Gilchrist

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much. — Mick Jagger

We are all important, but we are not indispensable. — Tony Dungy

While poutine is a dish unique to Eastern Canada (Montreal and Ottawa), the concoction of French fries covered in cheese curds and (for no apparent reason) gravy, clearly deciphers Canadian culture. First, heart-blocking poutine is the easiest explanation for Canada's adoption of universal health care coverage. I'm pretty sure I'm still digesting the poutine I had in May 2006. Poutine also serves as a sedative, making you so drowsy and serene you find yourself saying "a-boot" instead of "about." The extra pounds you immediately gain help shield you against the bitter climate. The irrational love of hockey still remains a mystery to me, but I'm convinced it has something to do with poutine. — Jim Gaffigan

Discipline is a given; the choice is whether it is applied internally or externally. — Orrin Woodward

Mexico will not be taking advantage of us. They will not be having open borders. — Donald Trump