O A Zidan Quotes & Sayings

I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself. — Linda Hunt

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. — Confucius

Even thus imprisoned in an instant, the spirit of man might yet plumb the whole extent of space, and also the whole past and the whole future; and so from behind his prison bars, he might render the universe that intelligent worship which, they felt, it demanded of him. Better so, they said, than that he should fret himself with puny efforts to escape. He is dignified by his very weakness, and the cosmos by its very indifference. — Olaf Stapledon

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan. — Ronald Reagan

There are little wisps of jelly in a living brain. Deagle knows this well: neurons, transmitting signals - and the soul, so to speak, is somewhere in those flashes. He heard once on a science program that the spindle cell - present in humans, whales, some apes, elephants - may be at the heart of what we call our "selves."
What we recognize in the mirror - that thread we follow through time that we call "me"? It's just a diatom, a paramecium, a bit of ganglia that branches and shudders assertively. A brief brain orgasm, like lightning.
In short, it's all chemicals. You can regiment it easily enough: fluoxetine, sertraline, paroxetine, escitalopram, citalopram - the brain can be washed clean, and you can reset yourself, Ctrl+Alt+Del. You don't have to be a prisoner of your memories and emotions. — Dan Chaon

Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy — Siddharth Katragadda

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful. — Dalai Lama