Saied Mojabi Quotes & Sayings

Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners, and, most importantly, help ensure the safety of our residents. — Colleen Hanabusa

There was silence. It was a slick sort of silence, the sort that would make bystanders turn their head to note it, same as a loud laugh. — Maggie Stiefvater

There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent. — George Osborne

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. — Gilbert Newton Lewis

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time. — Sara Ramirez

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is. — Robert A.F. Thurman

Guildenstern: What's the first thing you remember?
Rosencrantz: [thinks] No, it's no good. It was a long time ago.
Guildenstern: No, you don't take my meaning. What's the first thing you remember after all the things you've forgotten?
Rosencrantz: Oh, I see... I've forgotten the question. — Tom Stoppard

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Both sides of me were in dead earnest. — Robert Louis Stevenson

He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Yet the extravagant enthusiasm for profit persisted among businessmen. In the spring of 1969 Senator Long [spoke out against] a partisan of the oil industry...[and] that further taxation of oil profits would be disastrous. Such taxes... would remove "all business inventive and lead to Thursday to Tuesday weekends, wife swapping and drinking." Without the lure of profit, work would thus become meaningless. Americans would become pagan again and evils would prevail much like those that had inflamed Captain Endicott three centuries earlier — Jason Epstein

From my father, Alfred: Senza memoria vita non esiste.
(which in Italian means, without memory life does not exist) — Raymond F. Vennare