Mikaal Bates Quotes & Sayings

So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 per cent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the relatively better off is minimally 2.63 per cent, more than twice what is allocated to feed the poor and provide employment to the unemployed. — Amartya Sen

What do you get when you give a teenager $200 million? A bunch of has-beens calling you a lesbian for two hours ... — Justin Bieber

My son,
Here may indeed be torment, but not death. — Dante Alighieri

If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator. — Jaggi Vasudev

I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.' — Mads Mikkelsen

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity. — Simone De Beauvoir

Your trench. The lice were "chats," the food was — M.L. Stedman

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. — Thomas Carlyle

The eye were no more than sense organs. The brain was no more than a central switchboard, encased in bone and removed from the working surface of the body. It was the hands that were the working surface, the hands that felt and manipulated the universe. Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference. — Isaac Asimov

They take to the gallows those who speak the truth — Parinoush Saniee

Boomerang arrow, Kate
It comes back to you in the end. Boomerang. Respect it. — Matt Fraction

Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful. — Nora Roberts

In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once. — Paul Stamets

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white. — Malcolm X