Panossian Vahe Quotes & Sayings

Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. — Frank Portman

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change. — John Van Hamersveld

Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic "economic" behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age. — Ivan Illich

I don't want to get fat. — Sammy Sosa

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. — Jacques Barzun

The book itself was useless, too. All the advice it offered about the timing of meals and affecting a cheerful disposition and trying to take an interest in the husband's doings even when they're fearfully boring and never saying 'I told you so'
those aren't the reasons a person looks with favour upon another person, these aren't the reasons someone stays in love. — Helen Oyeyemi

The mind for truth
Begins, like a stream, shallow
At first, but then
Adds more and more depth
While gaining greater clarity. — Saigyo

There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive. — Confucius

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is. — Soren Kierkegaard

I'm a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking. — Norman Reedus

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed. — Hassan Rouhani

I don't think it was our time then. I guess it isn't now, either." John looks over at me, his gaze steady. "But one day maybe it will be. — Jenny Han

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Every one has a story someone in the world needs to hear. — Tami Belt

A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana