Workineh Gebeyehu Quotes & Sayings

In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among the 'human rights', does not aspire to being the most self-evident, essential need for human survival, such as food, or physical health. Compared to that other candidate for the basic impulse of human existence - self-preservation - it may even be deemed self-indulgent. — Wole Soyinka

It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home. — Emanuel Ax

If "facts" convinced people of things, no one would have sex — Glenn Hefley

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius. — Samuel Johnson

She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist. — Lois Lowry

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose. — Randall Jarrell