Manoff Dinah Quotes & Sayings

We are not shrinking from talking to Saudis or anyone else in the region, but it is up to each nation in the region to decide on its own how it will proceed and at what pace. There are other nations in the region that had similar policies to Saudi Arabia that are starting to make changes, such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Morocco. And so it takes time but when you see the need for such changes, then changes tend to follow. — Colin Powell

The temperament of a dandelion or cosmic preservation. Where does wonder begin? — Elizabeth Smart

I'm a firm believer that the path of discomfort offers us so much more than comfort ever has. Discomfort may very well be the most powerful change agent we have in our arsenal for becoming all that we can be - - and achieving the kind of success in life that we want. - Marc Schoen, PH.D, Your Survival Instinct is Killing You (2013) — E. Oberle

While the West had lulled itself to sleep with the comforting doctrine of man's achievements, a great revolution had been in progress in Russia. The hammer pounded and the sickle gleaned until a new social order called Communism emerged as one of the most powerful ideologies of all time. It challenged every concept man had ever held. It threatened the life of the whole world. It became the greatest challenge Christianity had faced in 2,000 years. It was a fanatic religion that asked questions and demanded answers. — Billy Graham

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse. — Faye Kellerman

Though it's thousands of miles away
Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today
Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs
Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs — Kanye West

What could be said about me ... a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well. — Claude Monet

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do. — Douglas Feith

It is success that colours all in life,
Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it ... when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in. — Doris Lessing

It's better to be a dictator than gay. — Alexander Lukashenko

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to. — E.L. Doctorow