Widad Akrawi Quotes

The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Today
  • Science

• I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Star
  • Big

• We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Actions

• I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Think
  • Very

• I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Bad
  • Reality
  • Hills

• To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Yourself
  • Destiny
  • Transform

• SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Children
  • Income
  • Veterans

• So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Experience
  • Society
  • Knowledge

• Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Myself

• I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Interested

• When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • She
  • Movie

• I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Parsi
  • Kashmiri

• You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Movie
  • You
  • Happen

• Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Yourself
  • Again
  • Push

• I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Desire

• If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different,' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Wife
  • Evil

• In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• I remember when 'I'm Moving On' came out, and we got the response we did, I thought, 'Man, this could be for real.' That was the first time it dawned on me what we had.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Response
  • I Remember
  • First Time

• What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger.

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Marriage
  • Goal
  • Actions

• The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.

  

  Widad Akrawi
  • Equality
  • Response
  • Depend