Tekola Abrham Quotes & Sayings

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity - or none at all - with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Throughout history societies have found ways of using this store of aggression, turning their adolescents into soldiers, cannon fodder with which to conquer their neighbors or defend themselves against their aggressors. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sixteen vampires you took out yourself with nothing but a stake and your cleavage? Makes me ashamed of my kind, it does. — Jeaniene Frost

And who, pray, is to choose the master?" "Nobody. He's the ineluctable product of circumstances." "That's a bit of a mouthful, isn't it?" "He rises to the top because he has the instinct to lead. He has the will to power. He has audacity and enthusiasm, ability, industry and energy. He fears nothing because to him danger is the salt of life." "No one could say that you hadn't a good conceit of yourself, Simon," smiled Charley. — W. Somerset Maugham

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it?
Yes. It does.
There's a lot of things look better at a distance.
Yeah?
I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one.
Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too. — Cormac McCarthy

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses. — Thomas Heatherwick

The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these. — Peg O'Connor

Post-modernism, which has probably lasted longer than modernism, is the process of interrogating the aesthetic discourse. Disrupting the narrative. Modernism says that things can be right. Post-modernism says that nothing can be right. So if you ever wonder why nothing new ever seems to happen any more, find a post-modernist and beat the shit out of then. Wyndham — Warren Ellis

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards. — Albert Camus