Behdad Sami Quotes

Never put anything past anyone. Stop expecting people to be as genuine as you are, it's never the case & it will almost always be a let down.

Behdad Sami

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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Try

• The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Character
  • Past

• Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Past
  • Thought

• Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Past
  • You
  • Because

• I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Believe
  • Past

• So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Truth
  • Past
  • Stop

• Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Home
  • Past
  • Sales

• To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • History
  • Past
  • Culture

• Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • Time
  • Home
  • Today

• I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Women
  • She
  • Guy

• Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Women
  • Past
  • Growing

• People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • People
  • Past
  • Cancer

• The only way you'll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Past

• The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • May
  • Past
  • Confidence

• Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Past

• Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

  

  Arthur Baer
  • Past
  • Wolf

• What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure.

  

  Jo Beverley
  • Believe
  • Family
  • She

• We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • Long
  • Past

• I grew up in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa, and I moved to London when I was 17. And I started commuting and, actually, to go to college. And I used to really enjoy that part of my journey where the - it was actually a Tube train, but it was over ground, and it went right past the backs of people's houses, and I could actually see right in.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Past

• Ev'en Thou my breast with such blest rage inspire,As mov'd the tuneful strings of Davids Lyre

  

  Abraham Cowley

• Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Wall
  • Names

• I don't think 'Magadheera' should be remade, nor do I think it will be remade. It is very difficult to recreate the same magic.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Think
  • Magic
  • Same

• Never put anything past anyone. Stop expecting people to be as genuine as you are, it's never the case & it will almost always be a let down.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Past
  • Genuine
  • Case