Siroos Jahanbani Quotes & Sayings

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor

What did I do, Win? You just left. You were supposed to come to my house. If it was too much, too soon, you should have told me. I'd never pressure you to do anything you didn't want to do. That's it, right? That has to be it. — Rachel Robinson

What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this. It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

To be truly effective, praise must be legitimate and pointed. Will everyone have good reason to believe this praise is true? What exactly is the praise for? In other words, I can walk around town with a megaphone, praising my employees at the top of my lungs, but if what I say isn't believable and specific, it won't have the effect I want. — Joel Manby

I think what I love most about Oprah's brand that I would love to do with the Eva Longoria brand is she has purpose with her brand. Everything she does means something. — Eva Longoria

All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness. — Reinaldo Arenas

There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a place where voices sing your beauty
A place where every breath
carves your image
in my soul.
[465, translated by Jonathan Star, - In the Arms of the Beloved] — Rumi

There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble. — Amanda Eliasch

He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word. — Ron Atkinson

Preparation is good, but customers need results. — Ron Kaufman

The ultimate rape is murder. Sometime during the rape, they cosider killing the victim. — Janet Bode

People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table. — Tyson Chandler

Ten years have passed and every day that I walk throughout the city, I feel honored to be a part of it - and atom in the blood of a beating heart belonging to the most wonderfully diverse, smart, creative, passionate being. — Melisa Singh

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things. — Rachel Cusk

Moving across levels of the particular and the abstract, trying to avoid a transcendent purchase on the objects of study, we set ourselves up for necessary failure in order to learn how to find our way into post-foundational possibilities. — Patti Lather