Kianoush Shirzad Quotes & Sayings

If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be? — Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Mind led body
to the edge of the precipice.
They stared in desire
at the naked abyss.
If you love me, said mind,
take that step into silence.
If you love me, said body,
turn and exist. — Anne Stevenson

Worth. A baseball team, of all things, was at the center of a story about the possibilities - and the limits - of reason in human affairs. Baseball - of all things - was an example of how an unscientific culture responds, or fails to respond, to the scientific method. As I say, I fell in love with a story. The story is about professional baseball and the people who play it. At its center is a man whose life was turned upside down by professional baseball, and who, miraculously, found a way — Michael Lewis

In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption. — Noam Chomsky

Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap. — Vijay Singh

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. — Masa Takayama

When people learn to preserve the richness of the land that God has given them and the rights to enjoy the fruits of their own labors then will be the time when all shall have meat in the smokehouse corn in the crib and time to go to the election. ("W.C." of Rural Neck KY in a letter to Farmers Home Journal - 1892) — Wendell Berry

I don't care about the fact that a dogs place is not in a bed - the closer they are to me, the more beautiful it is. — Bill Kaulitz

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them. — Aaron Yoo

Enthusiasm is intensified enjoyment of what you are doing. — Eckhart Tolle

I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show. — Aidan Turner

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20. — Ursula Andress