Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Quotes
Though we love to think that we are civilized & developed than that of people lived centuries ago. In reality, the world is still run through the principle of 'Might is right'. Whoever - government or individual - has more power & money is dominating and, in many cases, oppressing people who are financially & politically weaker.
Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Rachel Miner
There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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Black Star
The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
Damien Hirst
Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
Ban Ki-moon
The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.
Karl Marx
No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
Orson Scott Card
Individualism, isolation, alienation. The poet is not only different from society, he is as different as possible from other poets; all this differentness is exploited to the limit-is used as subject matter, even. Each poet develops an elaborate, 'personalized', bureaucratized machinery of effect; refine your singularities is everybody’s maxim.
Randall Jarrell
He showed no fear. It seemed that, at the commencement, his race had known gods and no other. Gods had bound and ill treated and slaughtered and played with them. Gods were a fact, as were the sun and the shaking of the earth. Just another terrible reality.
Tanith Lee
I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.
[Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt,
Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]
Christoph Martin Wieland
They engage in activities aimed at bringing them [clients] to Jesus. That's fine, but it shouldn't be done with government money.
David Saperstein
I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
Zeljko Ivanek
I enjoy romantic comedies in general. I like them when they're bad, I like when they're good.
Jessica Williams
I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.
John Sculley
Though we love to think that we are civilized & developed than that of people lived centuries ago. In reality, the world is still run through the principle of 'Might is right'. Whoever - government or individual - has more power & money is dominating and, in many cases, oppressing people who are financially & politically weaker.
Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
