Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells -
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
Vaughn Monroe -
You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
Carl Yastrzemski -
I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
T. J. Miller -
The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
A. S. Byatt -
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni -
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden -
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
Warren Bennis -
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
Yahya Jammeh -
I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
Nancy Lublin
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
Tahl Raz -
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.
Peter Ackroyd
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The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines
Sahndra Fon Dufe -
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela -
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus -
As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.
H. L. Mencken -
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi