Tooraj Taherpour Quotes & Sayings

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it. — Isabella Bird

If you feel ashamed about your need for love & support, it's because you were made to feel this way as a child. It's not a sign of weakness to want affirmation, reassurance or someone to count on; these are natural, appropriate needs. Just make sure to be there for yourself first. — Marcia Sirota

If you have a sense of the rates of change of stocks, you don't expect things to happen faster than they can happen. You don't give up too soon. — Donella H. Meadows

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass. — Dan Barber

In creating superdelegates, the Democratic Party recognized the expertise that its top holders of public office have gained by running for office themselves. They are experts at winning. They know the issues. They are in a unique position to evaluate presidential candidates. — Jim Hunt

General Electric.' It has a rather nice ring to it, doesn't it? — Graham Moore

If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been punished in a manner which we may call passive. By this I mean that another person has not taken special, socially overt steps to harm the "offender." This phenomenon has not received the attention it deserves. — Thomas Szasz

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. — Joseph Campbell

...when today as believers in our age we hear it said, a little enviously perhaps, that in the Middle Ages everyone without exception in our lands was a believer, it is a good thing to cast a glance behind the scenes, as we can today, thanks to historical research. This will tell us that even in those days there was the great mass of nominal believers and a relatively small number of people who had really entered into the inner movement of belief. It will show us that for many belief was only a ready-made mode of life, by which for them the exciting adventure really signified by the word credo was at least as much concealed as disclosed. This is simply because there is an infinite gulf between God and man; because man is fashioned in such a way that his eyes are only capable of seeing what is not God, and thus for man God is and always will be the essentially invisible, something lying outside his field of vision. ... — Pope Benedict XVI

Listen to the advice of your own Destiny! All is a given! — Sorin Cerin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. — Benjamin Franklin

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting. — Lee Friedlander

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love. — Albert Einstein

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound

She was held together by a thread. Not even a strong fishing wire, but the kind of thread that could fray and break in the wind. A thread that could unravel at any moment, scattering and smashing all the pieces of her that she as trying desperately to keep together. — R.L. Griffin