Golnaz Fathi Quotes & Sayings

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving. — Lauren Groff

This is a very grave matter, punishable by ... well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine. — Susanna Clarke

External explanations of black-white differences - discrimination or poverty, for example - seem to many to be more amenable to public policy than internal explanations such as culture. Those with this point of view tend to resist cultural explanations but there is yet another reason why some resist understanding the counterproductive effects of an anachronistic culture: Alternative explanations of economic and social lags provide a more satisfying ability to blame all such lags on the sins of others, such as racism or discrimination. Equally important, such external explanations require no painful internal changes in the black population but leave all changes to whites, who are seen as needing to be harangued, threatened, or otherwise forced to change.
In short, prevailing explanations provide an alibi for those who lag - and an alibi is for many an enormously valuable asset that they are unlikely to give up easily. — Thomas Sowell

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. — Muhammad Ali

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God. — Thomas Carlyle

God gives burdens, but also shoulders, — Anonymous

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it. — Richard Ayoade

Tyson McCabe, my bad boy, my tortured soul, my little piece of dark with bits of light that glimmer like stars. — C.M. Stunich

Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Brazil, various German states and smaller countries. They were the personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United States, India, Cuba and Australia. — G. Edward Griffin

What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen. — Norbert Wiener

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die. — Giuseppe Mazzini

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge. — Anne Rice

Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothing to do with it. — Nicola Yoon