Nikayah Quotes & Sayings

None of us are ever who we were yesterday. — William James

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin. — Franklin Foer

I was a big dreamer and never particularly good at anything
a real dilemma. I wasn't terrible. I was just ... okay. If you're terrible, you can write everybody off, like, "I don't know what the hell those idiots are doing?" I knew what those idiots were doing. And I knew that they did it better than me. — Mike Birbiglia

a decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler's throw, — Peter F. Drucker

On rooftops overlooking each crossing, Cossacks had begun setting up machine guns. — Paul Russell

Words are never frail. They have all the powers to change the personality and features of a man. The way he relates and depicts the things are based on the words he discovers. At one point where words portray happiness for someone, it also counts for the tears to some. The day we comprehend the strength of words, we would choose them more closely and patiently. Where we would prefer silence more over words. If words are our strength, they are our weakness too. — Nishikant

Yes, but do not persons often err about good and evil: many who are not good seem to be so, and conversely? That — Plato

Knowing what you can do at any given time to look and feel better is pretty powerful. — Bobbi Brown

You have to just forget about the ball and swing the club. It's hard to see if you don't hit the green. — Stewart Cink

A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we - you and I and others like us - have brought up from the slime. — John Edward Williams

Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them. — Dennis Miller

Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it. — Thomas Jefferson

BORN TO RUN In his book Racing the Antelope: What Animals Can Teach Us about Running and Life, biologist Bernd Heinrich describes the human species as an endurance predator. The genes that govern our bodies today evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, when we were in constant motion, either foraging for food or chasing antelope for hours and days across the plains. Heinrich describes how, even though antelope are among the fastest mammals, our ancestors were able to hunt them down by driving them to exhaustion - keeping on their tails until they had no energy left to escape. Antelope are sprinters, but their metabolism doesn't allow them to go and go and go. Ours does. And we have a fairly balanced distribution of fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers, so even after ranging miles over the landscape we retain the metabolic capacity to sprint in short bursts to make the kill. — John J. Ratey

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle. — Elena Ferrante