Lhistorien Mohamed Quotes

#1. What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

Charles Bukowski

#2. Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. I'm lucky enough that, in my career, people think that attaching my name to something helps it a little bit.

Graham Yost

#4. It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?

Pamela Dean

#5. Almost everyone I've ever loved is dead. And the only way to live with the constant cull of what you love is to take a little of that cold grave into yourself, every time.

Gregory David Roberts

#6. Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.

Alex Steffen

#7. One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#8. Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

Baal Shem Tov

#9. Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

Hans Arp

#10. No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

William J. Clinton

#11. Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children ...

Shirley Jackson

#12. Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

Peter Kreeft