Mogao Ao Quotes & Sayings

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words. — Jules Verne

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. — Ice-T

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good. — Rashida Jones

Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful. — Alcuin

Sure, I hung out around Red Witch Bridge in the middle of the night, but that was in the cover of the trees with an urban legend and a baseball bat as weapons. — Francesca Zappia

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people. — Sam Harris

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop — Richard Dawkins

I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them. — Bidzina Ivanishvili

Ezra clapped his hands. "all right," he said. "In addition to the books we're reading as a class, I want to do an extra side project on unreliable narrators." Devon Arliss raised her hand. "what does that mean?" Ezra strode around the room. "well, the narrator tells us the story in the book, right? But what if ... the narrator isn't telling us the truth? Maybe he's telling us his skewed version of the story to get you on his side. Or to scare you. Or maybe he's crazy! — Sara Shepard

At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen. — Malaika Arora Khan

The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community. — Michael Bloomberg

Judge Ted Poe's critics - like the civil rights group the ACLU - argued to him the dangers of these ostentatious punishments, especially those that were carried out in public. They said it was no coincidence that public shaming had enjoyed such a renaissance in Mao's China and Hitler's Germany and the Ku Klux Klan's America - it destroys souls, brutalizing everyone, the onlookers included, dehumanizing them as much as the person being shamed. — Jon Ronson

Typical Type A behavior. I was obsessed with time management. I didn't like people waiting for me. Worse, I hated waiting for others, but since I always arrived ridiculously early, I spent a lot of time waiting; hence, I always carried a book with me. — T.B. Markinson