Jalaleddin Novella Quotes & Sayings

Open the curtains of your mind! If there is light outside, it will come in; if there is light inside, it will go out! Keep the curtains open! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You see in the old days, why the only thing they knew how to tax was land, or a house. Well, that condition went along for quite awhile, so even today the whole country tries to run its revenue on taxes on land. They never ask if the land makes anything. "It's land ain't it? Well tax it then." — Will Rogers

The mistake we all make is in assuming anybody remembers anydamnthing from one day to the next. If that were true, we'd stop getting involved with approximately the same kind of wrong lover each time, we'd learn the lessons of history, the death penalty would discourage those plotting murder, and George Santayana's famous quote would be about as popular as "the bee's knees." But few of us keep accurate records of what we've learned as we hobble through life barking our shins in the dark on experiences we've already had ... — Harlan Ellison

I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it's just the list is too long to mention just one and it's not fair to the others. — Ahmed H. Zewail

Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. — Gregory David Roberts

Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real. — Amy Neftzger

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past. — Roger Ebert

Fashion is general. Style is individual. — Edna Woolman Chase

I must have faith, but having faith is hard, so very much harder than despair. — Robin LaFevers

Never once did it occur to me that when I found the trail again, it would ruin my life forever. For once you feel the breath of God breathe on your skins, you can never turn back, you can never settle for what was, you can only move recklessly, with abandon, your heart filled with fear and your ears ringing with those constant words, "Fear Not." - Mike Yaconelli — Terry B. Walling

If there's been epidemic extinction and ecospace opens up, rats may be best placed to take advantage of that. — Elizabeth Kolbert