Muthanna Akram Quotes & Sayings

It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa. — James A. Michener

How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember ... No lasting joke, invention, insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory ... Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estranged ... memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human. — Joshua Foer

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work. — Colette

I didn't wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck. — A.A. Bell

Sometimes love is best expressed through service. Words are great, but when you walk in love, your commitment must be more than words. — Joyce Meyer

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate. — Mitch McConnell

Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed. — C. Vann Woodward

A few times I try to form a question so it sounds casual and normal, but each time the words get caught somewhere in my throat and never make it out. — Jandy Nelson