Ghorban Birami Quotes & Sayings

If the pupil proves to be of so perverse a disposition that he would rather listen to some idle tale than to the account of a glorious voyage or to a wise conversation, when he hears one; if he turns away from the drum-beat that awakens young ardour in his comrades, to listen to another tattoo that summons him to a display of juggling; if he does not fervently feel it to be pleasanter and sweeter to return from a wrestling-match, dusty but victorious, with the prize in his hand, than from a game of tennis or a ball, I can see no other remedy that for his tutor to strangle him before it is too late, if there are no witnesses. — Michel De Montaigne

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. — Ezra Stiles

Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you. — Stanley Tucci

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. — Earl Wilson

Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites
rather than fighting for jobs or education
fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior. — Jesse Jackson

We are linked and not ranked. Ever butty is equal, everyone is the same. — Amy Richards

Contemplative traditions on the whole have historically emphasized subjective, first-person investigation of the nature and functions of consciousness, by training the mind to focus in a disciplined way on its own internal states. — Dalai Lama XIV

To be involved in the seven spheres of life is to extend kingdom virtues — Sunday Adelaja

It's obvious this is her first love ...
Books.
(Grey) — E.L. James