Horstenau Quotes & Sayings

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet. — Philip Schultz

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

An Islamic university ... structure is different from a Western University; [its] conception of what constitutes knowledge is different from what Western philosophers set forth as knowledge; [its] aims and aspirations are different from Western conceptions. The purpose of higher education is not, like in the West, to produce the complete citizen, but rather, as in Islam, to produce the complete man, or the universal man ... A Muslim scholar is a man who is not a specialist in any one branch of knowledge but is universal in his outlook and is authoritative in several branches of related knowledge. — Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

The difference between an energetic person and a confused person is the difference in the way their minds handle their experiences. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living — John Flanagan

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost. — Giacomo Casanova

Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children. — Marlene Dietrich

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends. — F Scott Fitzgerald

What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying. — Laura Esquivel

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day. — Umberto Eco

His smile is laced with dynamite. — Tahereh Mafi