Niyah Rahmaan Quotes & Sayings

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. — Sam Levenson

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose. — Wendell Berry

A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself. — Cesare Pavese

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness. — Marlee Matlin

My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere. — Kumi Naidoo

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to
become evil! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Of course the people in the metro didn't see a thing! ... what a joke! petrified ratlets! but they'll still come out to refute me! make claims! ... that nothing got bombed! ... squished! powdered! that the firmament was calm, and me, I imagined the whole thing! chrysanthemums, sprays, roses! why, there's no more any such thing as sky-hooking shrapnel than there is anal ice cream! it's all in my mind! hallucinations and bullshit! what a crook! but I repeat and reassert! shrapnel and fiery lace stretched from one end of the horizon to the other! with lots of glow-worms mixed in ... and dancing purple fireflies ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently. — Karl Albrecht

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers. — Lee Iacocca

Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself. — Brian D. McLaren

In this life we are all fighting to be. Be something, be someone. Be rich, be happy, be successful. It's not enough to just BE. — Jennifer Calvert

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one. — Andrew J. Bernstein