Hasan Aga Quotes & Sayings

Religion could not be faked or used for worldly purposes. — Kim Stanley Robinson

We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought. — Thomas Bernhard

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet. — Alice Eve

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination. — Charlie Chaplin

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution. — Kenneth R. Miller

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs. — Maurice Strong

One secret to wisdom:
think more, speak less.
If you let your words be few,
your troubles will not be many. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness. — Brian A. McBride

There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything. — Paul Scholes

A guilty system recognizes no innocents. — Iain M. Banks

He is strong enough to stand exposed, revealing all that is vulnerable within him. He is brave enough to invite you ever closer. If you hurt him, he will withdraw, as he must, and that path to him will be thereafter for ever sealed. But he begins with the gift of himself. What the other does with it defines the future of that particular relationship. — Steven Erikson

Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters. — David Quammen

I am without illusions; what would the Senate do with me, an inexperienced legislator who lacks the faculty of self-deception, essential requisite for wanting to guide others? — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance. — Molly O'Neill