Kakvih Ima Quotes & Sayings

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset. — John Scarlett

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system. — Vladimir Putin

It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians are uncommonly fortunate to be here. — Geraldine Brooks

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. — Pierre Schaeffer

It was love. He excavated a boot print she'd left on the snowy step outside his apartment and preserved it in his freezer. — Anthony Doerr

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you! — Matthew Woodring Stover

Happiness is not a destination. It cannot be bought, sold or traded. Happiness is the gift of the journey. — Lisa Cypers Kamen

With today's technology, social attitudes and appetite for self-actualisation, we'd ideally look upon our work with a sense of pride, involvement and accomplishment. But we're rarely given the chance. Instead, we pretend to love our jobs with an almost idiotic zeal, while being secretly exhausted and insulted by them. — Robert Wringham

She was determined to buy whatever he was selling. — Anne Taintor

Like most ministers, Peter was not the best judge of his own sermons. Almost invariably when he thought he had written one of his best, the rest of us did not rate it so highly. And, when on Saturday night he was bemoaning a "terrible sermon," he could be pretty sure his congregation would think it terrific. How other people rated his sermons was a constant source of astonishment to him. "That's what keeps me humble," he often said. — Catherine Marshall

Your projects can often demonstrative new and innovative approaches that can be supported and eventually replicated with greater support from the public sector. Showing up and speaking up at city council and state legislature hearings are essential, but so is the project work. — Mark Winne

New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't far from New York), perhaps because I did my artistic "growing up" while working in this crazy, wonderful city back in my twenties. Although I love the quieter, slower, nature-rich life I live now in the sheep-dotted hills of Devon, there are ways in which I still feel more truly myself here in New York, more than anywhere else. Even after all this time in the desert and on Dartmoor. Strange, isn't it? — Terri Windling

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on. — Ruth Pitter

Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice. — Cab Calloway