Kianoosh Kaveh Quotes & Sayings

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? — Karl Pilkington

In Haida's brain there must have been a kind of high-speed circuit built to match the pace of his thoughts, requiring him to occasionally engage his gears, to let his mind race for fixed periods of time. If he didn't - if he kept on running in low gear to keep pace with Tsukuru's reduced speed - Haida's mental infrastructure would overheat and start to malfunction. Or at least, Tsukuru got that impression. — Haruki Murakami

If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe. — Aldous Huxley

But what would it look like if we parented a generation of young people to define themselves by what they did do? What if they were defined by their actions of justice and mercy, forgiveness and love, strength and courage, generosity and humility and faithfulness? What if they were a generation who lived in the world and still proclaimed these things by their very lives? — Michelle Anthony

Position, - for the Negro to realize more deeply than he does at present the need of uplifting the masses of his people, for the white people to realize more vividly than they have yet done the deadening and disastrous effect of a color-prejudice that classes Phillis Wheatley — W.E.B. Du Bois

Its almost as if he was raised by wolves, but wolves who knew the value of a decent education. — David Nicholls

My spirit is willing to do what is right; and my flesh, I hope, is strong enough to accomplish the will of Heaven — Charlotte Bronte

Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long. — Mia Castile

In order to build a system of values you need time and persistence — Sunday Adelaja

Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty? — Julie Otsuka

I have a very long and beautiful love affair with Elvis Presley. I own every record he ever made, so I have about 150, almost 200 records of his. So much that I haven't even listened to all of them. I see an Elvis record that I don't have, and I'll buy it and put it in my collection. — Alexandra Shipp

You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with. — Geoffrey Canada

Don't talk to the people until you've listened to the people. — Anne Klein