Kidane Mehret Quotes & Sayings

No one fired a pistol to mark the start of the race to the bottom. The earth just tilted and everyone slid into the hole. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes. — Douglas Coupland

A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class. — John Conyers

Life is the greatest fortune. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security. — Thomas Paine

You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government. — Ron Wyden

I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets. — Ronald Reagan

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy. — Mikhail Gorbachev

The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls — Alfred North Whitehead

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another. — Hermann Hesse