Haimanot Yilma Quotes & Sayings

Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction. — Valerie Jarrett

I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story. — August Wilson

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us. — Samuel Richardson

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves. — John Tillotson

Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks. — Ally Carter

Hey, I can shop. You hunt down your purchase, club it to death with a credit card and drag it out of the store, right? — Dana Marie Bell

Though they have been subjected to disgraceful treatment, the Palestinians in East Jerusalem are fortunate in comparison with those who are less visible, and therefore can be killed, tortured, humiliated, and driven from their destroyed homes and lands virtually at will. It is, in fact, astonishing that their spirit has not been broken. — Noam Chomsky

Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers. — Stephen Hunter

Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work. — W. Edwards Deming

Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves. — Marcel Wanders

Good friends and excellent teachers - Stick close to them! Wealth and power are fleeting dreams but wise words perfume the world for ages. — Ryokan

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is. — Soren Kierkegaard

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. — John Galsworthy