Yasser Arafat Quotes

All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.

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• Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • Life
  • Moments
  • My Life

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Career
  • Control

• My health is fine.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Health
  • Fine

• Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Children
  • Child
  • Same

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Never
  • Young
  • Published

• I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Career

• Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Water
  • Memory
  • Fish

• I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Die
  • Kill

• Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Men
  • Children
  • Home

• On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Kings
  • Sons
  • Companions

• What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Strength
  • Page
  • Call

• To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • May
  • Free

• The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Act

• I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Feelings
  • Weird

• I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Believe
  • America
  • Want

• Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved... I'm happy and relieved by this.

  

  Buzz Osborne
  • People
  • Happy
  • City

• I do not think this makes a lot of sense, and I think we should rely on the Park Service to implement the regulations that they have in place with the restrictions so that people can enjoy our parks.

  

  Don Sherwood
  • People
  • Service

• I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Done
  • Man
  • Looking

• All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • People
  • Friend
  • Religious