Nechirvan Barzani Quotes & Sayings

Ever since the French Revolution, people throughout the world have gradually come to see both equality and individual freedom as fundamental values. Yet the two values contradict each other. Equality can be ensured only by curtailing the freedoms of those who are better off. — Yuval Noah Harari

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning. — Jim Evans

He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success. — Michael Braccia

It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman ... Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. The were made to fly as wingman, instead. — Erich Hartmann

We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price. — Stanley Hauerwas

she shall scant show well that now shows best. — William Shakespeare

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. — Richard Whately

Learning is the making of meaning. — Robert Kegan

There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American wake, because the whole community stayed up to keep the emigrants company through their last night on the island, just as they would have bidden farewell to a soul beginning the long journey towards eternity. There was almost no chance that anyone present would ever see the departed again — Cole Moreton

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges

Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will. — LaToya London

I am induced to think," said Pencroft, "that this man was not wrecked on Tabor Island, but that in consequence of some crime he was left there. — Jules Verne