Houshang Touzie Quotes & Sayings

The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. — Edward Gibbon

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime. — Steve McConnell

One thing Valek did know how to do - sew. The other assassins hadn't called him the King Knitter for nothing. — Maria V. Snyder

There's no room for pride, not in a slave,
not with the lord and master standing by. — Sophocles

I admire great people who endure crisis and triumph over adversities of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bonhoeffer's experiences with African American community underscored an idea that was developing in his mind: the only real piety and power that he had seen in the American church seemed to be in the churches where there were a present reality and a past history of suffering. — Eric Metaxas

If we cease to believe in love, why would we want to live? — Julie Plec

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith. — Nawal El Saadawi

Religions themselves are ... peace-loving. They can also be a constructive force in peace-building, and this also applies to the Middle East. — Martti Ahtisaari

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple. — Bruno Mars

Power knows power. — Gloria Naylor

Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck — Rachel Vincent

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester. — Beatrix Potter

With the advent of this kind of TMZ culture, it sadly seems to have infiltrated the vanguard of film commentary. I see these reviews sometimes where I think, well, you have a right to say whatever you want about my work, and I will listen whether it's good or bad and see if there's something that I might work with, but personal issues don't have a place in film commentary. — Nicolas Cage

It fascinates me that believers have made faith in a god's existence into an admired and respected concept. Some people brag endlessly about their great faith in a god, never once considering that giving up on their mind's ability to weigh evidence and analyze arguments may not be such a good thing. I cannot imagine how it can ever be right to default to faith when considering an unusual claim. — Guy P. Harrison