Yassmin Ibrahim Quotes

#1. Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

Baltasar Gracian

#2. The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those who are happy in the world are so as a result of their desire for the happiness of others.

Shantideva

#4. Fortune or misfortune, a man can but try; there's not to be done without trying - accept laying down and dying.

Charles Dickens

#5. But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

Edie Brickell

#6. Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

Melissa Marr

#7. Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

Richard Stallman

#8. Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.

John Flavel

#9. There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

Swami Paramananda

#10. A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst

#11. I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

Valerie Bertinelli