Shapour Gholamreza Quotes & Sayings

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods. — Marjane Satrapi

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you? — Cole Porter

Controls is about fear, see. If you're afraid enough of the reprisals, you don't say no, you don't fight back, you don't run away. Saying yes is how you survive. It becomes normal. Horrible, but normal. Horrible, because it's normal. Now, lucky you can say 'Not standing up to him is giving him permission,' but if you've been fed this diet since the year dot, there is no standing up. Victims aren't cowards. Outsiders, like, they never have a clue how brave you have to be just to carry on. — David Mitchell

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. — Matthew Prior

To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention. — Henna Inam

Janie calls Cabel.
"Hi, uh, Mom," she says.
Cabel snorts. "Hello, dear. Did you make it through the blizzard?"
"Yeah. Barely." Janie grins into the phone. — Lisa McMann

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence ... sort of like the Post Office with tanks. — Emo Philips

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be. — Alain De Botton

We, like the natural world, have become mere commodities in the hands of corporations to exploit until exhaustion or collapse. Elected officials are manufactured personalities and celebrities. We vote based on how we are made to feel about corporate political puppets. The puppets, Democrat and Republican, engage in hollow acts of political theater keep the fiction of the democratic state alive. There is, however, no national institution left that can accurately be described as democratic. Citizens, rather than participate in power, are permitted virtual opinions to preordained questions, a kind of participatory fascism as meaningless as voting on "American Idol." Mass — Bertram M. Gross

Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not "if only." Not "as long as." I matter equally. Full stop. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie