Jameen Rasid Quotes & Sayings

Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me? — Tom Cruise

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Even the genuinely good cannot, unaided, learn to love. To penetrate beyond the absurdities, the vices, and, above all, the stupidities of human creatures, one must possess the secret of a love which the world has now forgotten. Until that secret shall have been discovered, all betterment in conditions of life will be in vain — Francois Mauriac

Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests]. — Edward De Bono

Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture. — Platon

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff? That's just not enough. Look at us all. What's the common assumption that got us all from there to here? What makes us deserve the ice cream and running shoes and wool Italian suits we have? I mean, I see all of us trying so hard to acquire so much stuff, but I can't help but feeling that we didn't merit it ... — Douglas Coupland

The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness. — Marilyn Jager Adams

I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world. — Kay Kenyon

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture. — William Irwin Thompson