Nur Muhammad Taraki Quotes
When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation.
Quotes to Explore
-
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
-
I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
-
I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
-
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
-
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
-
My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
-
A house is kind of scary.
-
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
-
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
-
Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
-
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
-
As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
-
When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
-
Ouders kunnen alleen raad of goede aanwijzingen meegeven, de uiteindelijke vorming van iemands karakter ligt in zijn eigen hand.
-
Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.
-
Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.
-
When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.
-
I'd love to host a reality show now and not be a contestant in it. I want to take a show forward.
-
I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
-
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
-
When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?
-
When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation.
