Maftoul Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. — Aldo Leopold

That reminds me." I dug into my book bag and pulled out a white cardboard box tied with a string. "I brought these back for you."
He looked at the box, then at me, before slowly reaching out. "What are they?"
"Poisonous snakes. Open it."
Zachary untied the string. "They seem like very quiet snakes."
"They're stealthy. Or maybe dead. — Jeri Smith-Ready

He only profits from praise who values criticism. — Heinrich Heine

Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how. — Atul Gawande

I don't really have any positive vision of the future, don't know what kind of world I'd someday like to live in or if it's even possible to achieve something better than this. I only know that the billionaires are attacking us, again and again taking measures that serve no other purpose than to increase their own wealth and debase all other aspects of life. And when you are attacked you must fight back, in whatever way you can. — Jacob Wren

What today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough ... — Brian D. McLaren

If you imagine the difference between an abacus and the world's fastest supercomputer, you would still not have the barest inkling of how much more powerful a quantum computer could be compared with the computers we have today. — Marcus Chown

A great tragedy is occurring. Millions of people are dying prematurely. These people are killing themselves and they don't even know it. — Tim Loy

Moomintroll bent down to wake the Snork Maiden up, and then he noticed a terrible thing. Her beautiful fluffy fringe was burnt right off. It must have happened when the Hattifatteners brushed against her. What could he say? How could he comfort her? It was a catastrophe!
The Snork Maiden opened her eyes and smiled.
"Do you know," said Moomintroll hastily, "it's most extraordinary, but as time goes on I'm beginning to prefer girls without hair?"
"Really?" she said with a look of surprise. "Why is that?"
"Hair looks so untidy!" replied Moomintroll. — Tove Jansson

Think big or die small!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — Stephen Richards

I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species. — Craig Venter

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you. — Andre Benjamin

I got the memo, Nathan," I interrupt him crossly. "You don't love me. Aren't going to love me. I hear it loud and clear. A fucking cuddle session isn't going to change that. — Alessandra Torre