Khorramian Quotes & Sayings

The human brain comprises about 2 percent of a person's body weight, but it consumes upward of 20 pcent of that body's oxygen intake, and it controls 100 percent of that body's actions. — Elyn R. Saks

The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather it is a certain form of thought and feeling that rational persons can adopt within the world. And having done so, they can, whatever their generation, bring together into one scheme all individual perspectives and arrive together at regulative principles that can be affirmed by everyone as he lives by them, each from his own standpoint. Purity of heart, if one could attain it, would be to see clearly and to act with grace and self-command from this point of view. — John Rawls

Some girls barely speak, but always askin' for a dollar. — Big L

Falling in love is easy. Fools fall in love all the time. Staying in love is the test of time and the gift you give to one another daily ... . — James A. Murphy

Religion can take you only so far. — Kris Waldherr

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. — Doris Lessing

You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard. — Laurell K. Hamilton

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it. — Sarah Schulman

Fireflies Hey, fireflies! Fly higher, guys! Fly high above this place. Till a sky rise is a wire's size. Then fly off into space. I catch stupid bugs in jars but you're not bugs you're baby stars! — Bo Burnham

Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another. — Camille Paglia

At one point in my life, I learned how to think. I used to know how to feel. In war, these are lessons best forgotten. — Ruth Ozeki

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. — Thomas Jefferson

We do it wrong, being so majestical,
To offer it the show of violence,
For it is as the air, invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery. — William Shakespeare

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait. — Ernst W. Mayr

He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die. — D.H. Lawrence