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

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Bad
  • Reality
  • TV

• To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Yourself
  • Destiny
  • Transform

• 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

• 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

• She was, fine as fuck I wanted to sex the ho up. She said 'let's hit the parking lot so I can sick your duck.'

  

  Outkast
  • Up
  • She
  • Sex

• No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Force

• The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

  

  Brigham Young

• When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

  

  Kelly Ripa
  • Work
  • Kids

• Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women

• As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Long
  • Equality

• Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Party
  • Government
  • Mean

• My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

  

  Jim Hodges
  • Light

• Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

  

  Luciano Berio
  • People
  • Important
  • Together

• 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