Tabatabaian Quotes & Sayings

Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact. — David A. Bednar

The simple act of talking openly about behavioral patterns makes the subconscious conscious. — Sheryl Sandberg

My friend is having his period," I told the pizza guy, and handed him his tip. "He needs Britney and extra cheese to get him through it. I'm trying to be supportive. — Maggie Stiefvater

I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace. — Jim Cantalupo

Our generation of women is clearing the path for our daughters, granddaughters, women and girls down the line, to be safe to be the woman or girl they are. — Tabby Biddle

Give me your word that you'll tell the queen what she wants to hear when she comes calling." "If I did, my word would be as hollow as an empty suit of armor. My life is not so precious to me as that. — George R R Martin

Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, 'What is that?' — Muhtar Kent

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. — Alice Sebold

A millennium without air or light pollution made for pitch-black skies. The stars didn't just appear anymore. They exploded. Diamonds on black velvet. You couldn't tear your eyes away. — Blake Crouch

[ ... ] everything has a narrative, really, and if you can't understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you're not really alive at all. — Catherynne M Valente

I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells. — Patricia Cornwell

Absence of Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is indeed bliss. — Dada Bhagwan

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying. — Oliver DeMille

All previous ages have sweated and been crucified in an attempt to realize what is really the right life, what was really the good man. A definite part of the modern world has come beyond question to the conclusion that there is no answer to these questions, that the most that we can do is to set up a few notice-boards at places of obvious danger, to warn men, for instance, against drinking themselves to death, or ignoring the mere existence of their neighbours. — G.K. Chesterton

When you are made to choose between two good things ... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other. — Noemie Lenoir