Mayassa Bint Quotes & Sayings

It amuses me to weep for a dead man with eyes that once were his. — James Branch Cabell

If you have a weakness, you have to work hard to defend it. You can't be lazy about it. — Becca Fitzpatrick

People have said, 'Let's build bridges,' and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West. — Al-Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. — Manuel Puig

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories. — Melissa Harris-Perry

In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others? — Al-Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors. — Roy Yamaguchi

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. — Peter O'Toole

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind. — George McGovern

The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential. — Wendy Mogel

Uh, no loose wire jokes, okay? — Marc Cerasini

Technology has become the West's main prop to its claims of inherent superiority over the non-West, and the reason why the non-West should adopt Western culture. If advanced technology is particular to Western culture, then it is only by Westernizing that the non-West can obtain it. This argument collapses if Western technology can be adopted in isolation from the broader culture, or if other cultures can generate significant technology independently. — Peter A. Lorge

There is one basis of science," says Descartes , "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived is true." A profound psychological mistake. It is true only of formal logic, wherein the mind never quits the sphere of its first assumptions to pass out into the sphere of real existences; no sooner does the mind pass from the internal order to the external order, than the necessity of verifying the strict correspondence between the two becomes absolute. The Ideal Test must be supplemented by the Real Test, to suit the new conditions of the problem. — George Henry Lewes