Saidou Kabore Quotes & Sayings

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable — Niklaus Wirth

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. — Bill Vaughan

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them — A.J. Cronin

To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought. — James Baldwin

This notion that we're going to prop up foreign governments, that we're going to invade other countries for some kind of perceived benefit where we're going to install somebody who's going to be supportive of American interests or American corporate private interests needs to stop. — Matt Gonzalez

You are the sum total of all that we have been," said the youngster who looked like my former self. "In a way we are the ones to execute John Dawson. Because you can't do it without us. Now, do you see?" I was beginning to understand. An act so absolute as that of killing involves not only the killer but, as well, those who have formed him. In murdering a man I was making them murderers. — Elie Wiesel

I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features. — Kate Braverman

Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn't need head or heart. — Karen Marie Moning

I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins. — E.L. James

Understanding your boss is one of the best investments you can make in your own career. — Lynne Eisaguirre