Makki Di Quotes & Sayings

The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough ... — Paul Haggis

The future is a map drawn in the sand, and the tide can wash it away in a moment. — Terry Brooks

I'm just offering because I noticed that Tory was drinking. — Pepper Pace

The atomic bomb survivors ... cannot wait another 50 years. Their highest hope is to see the abolition of nuclear weapons within their own lifetime. It is a steep climb to this goal, but one from which we must never relent. — Iccho Itoh

Disagrees with neocon adviser on immediate need to bomb Iran. — Rudy Giuliani

I will eat grandfather for dinner. — Helen Keller

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis. — Stephen Cole Kleene

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come. — Franz Schubert

Lies are considered true. Truth is considered seditious. — Chris Hedges

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. — Joseph Conrad

Whenever we doubt our own ability to achieve, it is worthwile pondering the obstacles that others have overcome. To name a few ...
*Napoleon overcame his considerable handicap, his tiny stature, to lead his conquering armies across Europe.
*Abraham Lincon failed in business aged 31, lost a legislative race and 32, again failed in business at 34, had his sweetheart die when he was 35, had a nervous breakdown at 36, lost congressional races aged 43, 46 and 48, lost a senatorial race at 55, failed in his efforts to become vice president of the U.S.A aged 56 and lost a further senatorial contest at 58. At 60 years of age he was elected president of the U.S.A and is now remembered as one of the great leaders in world history.
*Winston Churchill was a poor student with a speech impediment. Not only did he win a Nobel Prize at 24, but he became one of the most inspiring speakers of recent times.
It is not where you start that counts, but where you choose to finish. — Andrew Matthews

Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they're always strangely drawn back ... because there's nothing that can compare to seeing the raw reality of the basic human need for survival. It disgusts and inspires — Dan Eldon

It's not something you can prove ... I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't. — Charles De Lint

Mathematics is a logical method ... Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein