"You can fit two United States and maybe a third one into the entire continent of Africa, but on a map we make the entire continent of Africa look like the size of the United States, which is why a lot of people don't know that Africa is a continent. They think it's a country because it looks as big as we do."

-- Baron Vaughn

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes

“Every goal is a highlight film.”
“I would have been a lot better off if Iâ€™d studied more when I was growing up, yâ€™know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.”
“One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.”
“Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.”
“We have created a mindset in our society where everyone wants what they want when they want it. And if we don't get what we want when we want it, we feel ripped off. To make matters worse, we intensify our problems by continuously rehashing our woe-is-me story to the entire world. Whatever it is that has the potential to keep you from enjoying the day, understand that it's not the situation itself that is causing you to be unhappy. It's your thoughts and how you allow them to control you. It's what you choose to focus on that fuels your emotions and defines your reality.”
“Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.”
“I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.”
“Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far as to deny the category of wisdom as a legitimate form of knowledge. The result was a hatred of wisdom that should more appropriately be called â€˜misosophyâ€™ (literarily hatred of Sophia, Wisdom) rather than philosophy.”

Source : Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1996). “Religion and the Order of Nature”, p.80, Oxford University Press

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