Mahshid Vossoughi Quotes & Sayings

The thing that you refuse to uproot will ruin you. The thing that you refuse to fight against will kill you — Sunday Adelaja

Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact. — John Wooden

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old
Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly
Contrives. In all creation, be assured,
There is no death - no death, but only change
And innovation; what we men call birth
Is but a different new beginning; death
Is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps
This may have moved to that and that to this,
Yet still the sum of things remains the same.
Nothing can last, I do believe, for long
In the same image. — Ovid

I don't like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy ... this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law ... and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics! — Pope Francis

Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers?
Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything. — Bill Willingham

I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having a sarcasm stroke. My God! You people! You're - you're so stupid you're making my eyeballs throb. They're throbbing, dammit! — MaryJanice Davidson

Bad enough when a man wanted to touch but could only look. Worse yet when he'd touched and not even noticed. — Helen Fielding

We may all end up dead, but we're sticking it to them in the meantime. — Cinda Williams Chima

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do. — Dan Gilroy

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more. — Richard Branson

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license. — Michael Franks

Since I'm not dead yet I can talk back. — Amy Tan