Harouts Quotes & Sayings

I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more relaxed state ... I used to take long solitary walks on Sundays, during which I tended to review the current situation in a leisurely way. Such occasions often proved fruitful, even though (or perhaps, because) the primary purpose of the walk was relaxation and not research. — Paul Dirac

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky,
And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. — Muhammad Iqbal

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop. — David Levithan

To Fleming, and to his readers, James Bond was a real person living in the modern world. The details of his life appear only sporadically in the books, but they proved vitally important in grounding him in his time, which made his extraordinary and often implausible adventures seem possible. — Henry Chancellor

The purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want. — Madeleine Albright

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style. — Michael Schumacher

My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty. — Angeles Mastretta

A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present. — Sarah Palin

It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words. — Sallust

I don't believe in "laying to rest" the past. There are wounds we won't get over. There are things that happen to us that, no matter how hard we try to forget, no matter with what fortitude we face them, what mix of religion and therapy we swallow, what finished and durable forms of art we turn them into, are going to go on happening inside of us for as long as our brains are alive. — Christian Wiman

A queen who owned her body, her life, her destiny, and never apologized for it. — Sarah J. Maas

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years. — Anne Waldman

The glass display cases had shown rock-throwers crafted by the Australian aborigines - like giant wooden shoehorns, they'd looked, but smoothed and carved and ornamented with the most painstaking care. In the 40,000 years since anatomically modern humans had migrated to Australia from Asia, nobody had invented the bow-and-arrow. It really made you appreciate how non-obvious was the idea of Progress. Why would you even think of Invention as something important, if all your history's heroic tales were of great warriors and defenders instead of Thomas Edison? How could anyone possibly have suspected, while carving a rock-thrower with painstaking care, that someday human beings would invent rocket ships and nuclear energy? — Eliezer Yudkowsky

...that society with its hurtful views on race and class distinction would make it difficult for us to succeed. — Curtis W. Jackson