Lavi Bookman Quotes & Sayings

Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be. — George Orwell

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it? — Mooji

When you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing. But the fans don't know you screwed up unless you act like you just made a mistake. — Jake Roberts

We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME. — John Quincy Adams

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today. — Bud Selig

One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi. — Nina Fedoroff

There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are. — Michael R. Fletcher

We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace. — Bryan Stevenson

It's a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they're dead. — Kevin Focke