Sembari Plus Quotes & Sayings

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence. — Muhammad Yunus

War provides some people with a sense of purposefulness. The drumbeat of war quickens the pulse of neighbors, relatives, tribes, and nations. Hostile nations amass weapons of destruction claiming that they seek peace through deterrence. When war comes, advocates of arms galvanize the citizenry by proclaiming the inevitability of conflict. Each side's propaganda machine cast the campaign of present war as the next Great War. Generals brashly promote armed conflict as the war to end all other wars. Saber-rattlers proclaim that the opposition's militant disciples instituted this ordeal of conquest and destruction. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Win with grace, lose with dignity! — Susan Polgar

We can do anything. It's not because our hearts are large, they're not, it's what we struggle with. The attempt to say Come over. Bring your friends. It's a potluck, I'm making pork chops, I'm making those long noodles you love so much. — Richard Siken

Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person. — John Green

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time. — James Franco

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me. — Democritus

It's no wonder we're always getting' mistaken for queers. Look at us - a bunch'a proper men, never growin' old, 'angin' about in the dark, bitin' other men on the neck. They don't fear us 'cause we got claws and fangs; they fear us 'cause they think we're comin' after their sons. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me. — Jonathan Nolan

We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn't take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for things. — Ashley Williams

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. — Joseph Fiennes

My earliest love, which was sort of an obsession, actually, was Nas. I was in seventh grade, I believe, when 'Nastradamus' was out, and I took it pretty far. — Solange Knowles