Mamadee Beautiful Souls Quotes & Sayings

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen ... — Jefferson Davis

You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different. — Frederick Lenz

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. — Jorge Luis Borges

Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story. — Matthew Pearl

A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic. — Ameen Rihani