Shaan Shahid Quotes & Sayings

The destruction of the world depends on the willingness of the people in it to harm each other in any way necessary to achieve their own ends and to further their own causes. And we got that part down pat, don't we? We know how to hurt each other and how to think up whatever excuses we need to justify it. We're victims and executioners both. — Terry Brooks

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them. — Izaak Walton

The little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away. — Terry Pratchett

Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives in the Machine? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It was robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralyzed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it. The Machine develops - but not on our lies. The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die. — E. M. Forster

You could not be more correct. It does matter. All of it. — Ron Currie Jr.

If parenting is the box of raisin bran, then real mothers know the ratio of flakes to fun is severely imbalanced. — Jodi Picoult

I don't do it on purpose."
"Really?" He didn't believe me.
"No. I don't." I held his granite gaze. "I don't like it when they cry. It's why I schedule these first dates for so late in the evening. — Penny Reid

The status quo is simply unacceptable. — Brad Henry

In these written tears alone have I expiated the hardness and ingratitude of my heart of eighteen years. I can never read over these verses without adoring that youthful image which the transparent and plaintive waves of the Gulf of Naples will ever bring to me, - nor without hating myself. But souls above forgive. Hers has forgiven me. Forgive me, too, reader, for I have wept. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Charisma can be as much a liability as an asset, as the strength of your leadership personality can deter people from bringing you the brutal facts. — James C. Collins

The energy we put out is the energy we get back. — Rachael Bermingham

Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water. — Bob Saget

When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing. — Rebecca Goldstein

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. — Logan Pearsall Smith