Akhwari Quotes

#1. My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race; they sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race. - John Stephen Akhwari, 1968 Summer Olympic

John Stephen Akhwari

#2. It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Virginia Woolf

#3. I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

Erica Durance

#4. And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

Daniel Libeskind

#5. An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Aldous Huxley

#6. Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them. The two are not the same.

John Paul Warren

#7. An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The common enemy is the white man.

Malcolm X

#9. There's something profoundly disturbing about watching an old guy eat a sandwich.

Dana Gould

#10. Men are - by nature - stupid creatures.
I think I can speak with some experience on this. Both as a man and well, a gay man. It's bad enough to be one of the stupid creatures. It's quite another to be attracted to them. Cursed at both ends: brain and dick.

Rhys Ford

#11. If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness.

Karen Salmansohn

#12. I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

James Van Der Beek

#13. Menstruating doesn't cause pickles to spoil, temples to collapse or food to rot, nor is it contagious, though it would be rather nice to infect the male population with this so-called 'curse' for a month or two, just to sit back and view what I am sure would be a highly entertaining spectacle.

Twinkle Khanna