Mahboubeh Fathabadi Quotes & Sayings

Language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes 'one's owns' only when the speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a natural and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own. — Mikhail Bakhtin

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am. — Karl Lagerfeld

It is not the men who are in command of the bulldozers. It is the bulldozer who invented men, and then, since they failed to interest it, obliterated them with its muscular arm. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership. — Don Nickles

I dare not be myself when I'm in a relationship; I become what the other person expects of me (or what I think the other person expects of me), or I stay apart, alone. — Thomas D'Ansembourg

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington. — Ani DiFranco

And then she realized that after that Christmas party, she didn't really lose anything, except respect for everyone. — Crystal Woods