Tooraj Pourmand Quotes & Sayings

Each person walks a journey unique to himself or herself. Live your own journey and run your own race. — Winsome Campbell-Green

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again. — Kiran Desai

Souls and purses, she thinks, these two are obsessed with souls and purses. — Jessie Burton

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. — Bryant H. McGill

I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie. — Farrah Fawcett

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience. — Adam Driver

The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held captive - be that from a person, a government, or one's inner self - the scars are deeply engraved into one's psyche, and there's no remedy for the soul. Many have the misconception that freedom equals happiness forever and ever.
That's a wicked delusion. — Laura Kreitzer

The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get. — Harry S. Truman

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception. — Alfred Russel Wallace

But natural to expect that the deeds of the great messenger should be just the works of the Father done in little. If he came to reveal his Father in miniature, as it were (for in these unspeakable things we can but use figures, and the homeliest may be the holiest), to tone down his great voice, which, too loud for men to hear it aright, could but sound to them as an inarticulate thundering, into such a still small voice as might enter their human ears in welcome human speech, — George MacDonald

While there was a part of me that acknowledged the idiocy and superficiality that surrounded me, I fell for the glamour: hook, line, and sinker. It took years for me to realize just how manipulated and used I had been. I could never admit that to myself at the time, because to do so would have been to acknowledge how dark and scary a situation I was in . . . and how very little in control I was. — Holly Madison

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic. — Jacqueline Woodson