Rauf Faik Quotes

#1. Boxing is entertainment, so to be successful a fighter must not only win but he must win in an exciting manner. He must throw punches with bad intentions.

Cus D'Amato

#2. Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.

John McCarthy

#3. Princesa came to rancho one day after her owner no want her. Says too much horse for him, too wild. But he's wrong. She's not wild, she's spirited. 'Wild' means 'I no care about what I do.' But 'spirited' means, 'I love what I do.' Big difference.

Stacey Lee

#4. The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

Daniel Gilbert

#5. It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.

Sam Walton

#6. Real love is unconditional love. Unconditional love is a decision we make within ourselves. The process is one of intention and the decision to be a loving person. If I decide to love you, that is my inner decision. There is nothing the other person can do about it.

David R. Hawkins

#7. If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

Krist Novoselic

#8. [Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

William S. Burroughs

#9. I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.

Peggy Guggenheim

#10. Cites and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye
Which daily die;
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spend and unconsidered Earth,
The cities will rise again

Rudyard Kipling

#11. Our lives are no more than the sum of manifold contingencies, and no matter how diverse they might be in their details, they all share an essential randomness in their design: this then that, and because of that, this.

Paul Auster

#12. There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Fred Brooks

#13. machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time

Alan Moore

#14. As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'

Evan Bayh

#15. Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

James Buchan