Istic Borj Quotes & Sayings

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out. — Walter Mosley

I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck. — Marlon Brando

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true. — Julian Fellowes

But, it's not what they think of you that matters, it's what you think of yourself. If I'd said something mean to them, I wouldn't like myself very much. — M. Latimer-Ridley

I've been keeping in stuff worse than that for more than twenty years."
- what the serial killer said to me. Based the antagonist in my novel on him. He's dead now. — Kristi Belcamino

It's assumed we'll be giving a present together
that's what couples are supposed to do. After a while, you become part of a proper noun. We're Daniel-and-Mandy. — David Levithan

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities. — Darren Shan

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working. — Rumi

I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values - and not just the stated ones. — Tony Hsieh

By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As the system developed, physicians and surgeons were appointed who gave lectures to medical students and issued diplomas to those who were considered qualified to practice. The first hospital in Egypt was opened in 872 AD and thereafter public hospitals sprang up all over the empire from Spain and the Maghrib to Persia. — John Bagot Glubb

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse ... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil. — C.S. Lewis

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect. — Arthur Laffer

O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials. — Baha'u'llah