Odah Quotes & Sayings

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. — Erica Jong

It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe; many are not aware of your existance! — Salman Al Odah

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer. — Antonio Damasio

When a mother extends outstretched arms to a son who has failed in sports, or school, or socially, or been deemed not smart enough, 'manly enough,' or just plain not good enough, he begins to understand what love is all about. The moment a mother extends her grace, he begins to understand that goodness in being a man isn't all about his performance. It isn't about his successes or his failures. It is about being able to accept love from another and then return that love."1 — Vicki Courtney

The very existence of concepts such as justice, democracy and hospitality enables the promise of something beyond all conceived present possibilities: the only impossibility is the determination in advance that certain events would be impossible. — Claire Colebrook

I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot. — Adolf Hitler

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth. — John Pilger

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. — Robert Fripp

They should set a very clear priority for the government. There is such a large penumbra of issues. The party needs to come to grips with the reality that it has to be coherent politically. — Mahesh Rangarajan

Some men who live hard and in good health can't believe sickness or weakness is anything but laziness, a sham. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever, is always liberating. — Chuck D

Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity. — Subhan Zein