Mehrdad Dashti Quotes & Sayings

Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure? — Matthew Reilly

Always assume your assailant is armed (even if you can't see a weapon, or have disarmed them of one), always assume they are as good as you, and always assume that they have third parties nearby who can come to their assistance. — Gershon Ben Keren

Here is a statistic that does matter: Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that "God helps those who help themselves." That is, three out of four Americans believe that this uber-American idea, a notion at the core of our current individualist politics and culture, which was in fact uttered by Ben Franklin, actually appears in Holy Scripture. The thing is, not only is Franklin's wisdom not biblical; it's counter-biblical. Few ideas could be further from the gospel message, with its radical summons to love of neighbor. On this essential matter, most Americans - most American Christians - are simply wrong, as if 75 percent of American scientists believed that Newton proved gravity causes apples to fly up. — Bill McKibben

The first part of saving your life is coming to understand how you endangered it by loving wrongly, and living under the rule of your passions. — Rod Dreher

So I've got five books, a building, and a hundred bucks.
I'm starting my business tomorrow. — Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

The most important thing I found out from [my father] is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind. — Richard P. Feynman

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers. — Rick Warren

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths — Eric S. Nylund

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down. — Gracie Allen

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity. — Simone Weil

Of all the Programmers' planets, ours is the supercomputing golden child, the world that inexplicably provides enough power to light up the galaxy. — David Eagleman

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods. — Benjamin Graham

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. — Oscar Wilde

Second isthe first of the losers. — Enzo Ferrari

LeBron James is the best player, hands down. He is easily moving into the territory of one of the best players of all time and may end up being the best player of all time. — Howard Bryant