Mutambara On Sanctions Quotes

#1. We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man
his mind and his psyche.

Sybil Leek

#2. Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

Luc De Clapiers

#3. A good friend once said, "If you break your arm, people rush to bring you flowers, food, and sympathy, but if your mind breaks even just a little, people run away, frightened and dismayed.

Nancy Thayer

#4. Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

Michael J. Sandel

#5. Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock.

Sidney Knight

#6. I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.

Natalie Dormer

#7. Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in their turn the houses throw themselves upon the bus and are blended with it.

Umberto Boccioni

#8. And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)

Nicole Krauss

#9. I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

Richard Cobden

#10. Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website.

Mike McCue

#11. All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

Jules Verne

#12. What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.

Kevin Rollins

#13. I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

Rowan Atkinson

#14. Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

Stewart Udall