Marziyeh Zamiri Quotes & Sayings

You can't fit in with people by pretending to be just like they are; you fit in by engaging in a dialogue about your differences, and by putting aside the assumption that your way of life is in any way preferable to theirs. — Andrew Solomon

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise. — Nagarjun

Today we are experiencing a historical revolution every bit as wrenching, far-reaching, and irreversible as the Industrial Revolution. Like that huge historic turning point, the revolution in marriage has transformed how people organize their work and interpersonal commitments, use their leisure time, understand their sexuality, and take care of children and the elderly. It has liberated some people from restrictive, inherited roles in society. But it has stripped others of traditional support systems and rules of behavior without establishing new ones. — Stephanie Coontz

I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page. — Billy Collins

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection. — Vladimir Nabokov

The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot. — Malcolm Gladwell

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside. — Arthur Dove

Next to that kid, we all look like onions. — Dustin Hoffman

If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, I'm walking back to the other side of the street, and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of. — Mark Cuban

Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind. — Kim J. Vicente

It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it. — Swami Parthasarathy

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God ... and where can you go from there? — Al Pacino