Omar Ahmad Quotes

#1. One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.

Omar Ahmad

#2. My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.

Dr. Seuss

#3. This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

Bernard Williams

#4. The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Winston Churchill

#5. Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.

Omar Ahmad

#6. To know me is not to love me. At

Tennessee Williams

#7. We had allowed ourselves to become distracted on the way to the Crusade, never laid eyes on a Turk, turned to pillage and rapine among the Hungarians and Greeks in order to reach the East ... all for the glory of God, of course, until defeated,

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. It's tough to say no to peace, to the comfort of it. All through history, people have traded wealth, children, land, and lives to buy it.
But peace can't be bought, can it, chief, prime minister? The only ones offering to sell it always want something more. They lie.

Jim Butcher

#9. We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.

Omar Ahmad

#10. The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

C.S. Lewis

#11. The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.

Annie Dillard

#12. When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?

Omar Ahmad

#13. Money in politics is a huge issue.

Russ Feingold

#14. It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.

Chris Martin