Ali Mohammad Taji Quotes

#1. Everything he did, he did well, and as a result he was an accomplished asshole indeed.

Douglas Preston

#2. That's part of why I tracked you down. I wanted to be as loyal to you as you are to your Clan. I know I can't exactly miss a life I've never known, Graystripe, but I think sharing your life and your path ... is the best journey I could possibly imagine.

Erin Hunter

#3. Still is just the right way to be. You rise in the morning to go about your day. You remember a friend who has troubles. You don't quibble with yourself about whether to call her; you don't write a reminder on your Palm Pilot or in your planner to make the call tomorrow. You just call. Simple.

C. Terry Warner

#4. I tell her how sorry I am, and as I speak my words feel inadequate and pathetic.

Chris Salewicz

#5. Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.

Dick Durbin

#6. Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made ... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes ... For a single genus, a single name.

Carl Linnaeus

#7. Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we're talking now, not factuality but possibility.

Hal Duncan

#8. Immediately I give myself a little mental slap. Fishing for compliments is a cardinal sin. "Never mind, I was only joking.

Sally Thorne

#9. Everybody makes his path differently.

Emanuel Ax

#10. There are a thousand and one gates leading into the orchard of mystical truth. Every human being has his own gate. We must never make the mistake of wanting to enter the orchard by any gate but our own. To do this is dangerous for the one who enters and also for those who are already there.

Elie Wiesel

#11. I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today.

Bill Richardson

#12. We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

Julie Bishop