Ahmad Ibn Yusuf Quotes

#1. Being stern was like being underwater-she could do it, but never for long, and how her whole boy burned to come up for breath!

Catherynne M Valente

#2. Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit ... the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.

Otto Rank

#3. What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

Aristotle.

#4. Love can be simply the absence of tension.

Will Advise

#5. The fundamental idea ... is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

Ric Keller

#7. I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.

Fergus Henderson

#8. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

Charles Fort

#9. And there's a darker side to Peckham, too, once you get in deep: a side I like a lot more, because I identify with the past and prefer even worm-eaten wood to wipe-clean plastic.

Mike Carey

#10. It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

Donald Johanson

#11. Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

Chanakya