Tanyeri Barak Quotes & Sayings

Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of commerce and travel. Your occupation of it gives you access to all who border it and all who would covet it. On intersecting ground, if you establish alliances you are safe, if you lose alliances you are in peril. — Sun Tzu

She spoke about it with such emphasis (somewhat affected) that I could see at once that I was hearing the manifesto of her generation. Every generation has its own set of passions, loves, and interests, which it professes with a certain tenacity, to differentiate it from older generations and to confirm itself in its uniqueness. Submitting to a generation mentality (to this pride of the herd) has always repelled me. After Miss Broz had developed her provocative argument (I've now heard it at least fifty times from people her age) that all mankind is divided into those who give hitchhikers lifts (human people who love adventure) and those who don't (inhuman people who fear life), I jokingly called her a "dogmatist of the hitch." She answered sharply that she was neither dogmatist nor revisionist nor sectarian nor deviationist, that those were all words of ours, that we had invented them, that they belonged to us, and that they were completely alien to them. — Milan Kundera

If Hamas continues to threaten the security of the state of Israel, I believe Israel has the ability and the capacity to control the borders and cut off the weapons supply. — Mosab Hassan Yousef

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight. — Mahatma Gandhi

I told you, hon, I'm not a real person. This is my job. — Michael Chabon

Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing ...
They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more. — Charlie Huston

Love is a thread that ties us together. Separation makes this thread much stronger. — Debasish Mridha

I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
And with the other fling it at thy face. — William Shakespeare

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made. — Zephyr Teachout

You told me I was the best sex you'd ever had in your life ... You couldn't get enough ... At one point you were so loud I thought sure hotel security was going to beat down the door. — Rachel Gibson

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate. — Lucy Hawking

Drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details — Sheridan Hay

I'm sick of always doing the professional thing for prudential reasons.' I — Ross Macdonald