"What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?"

-- Ruhollah Khomeini

#Country Quotes #Government Quotes #Iran Quotes

“To understand why, submit and apply.”
“Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.”

Source : Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated
“My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.”

Source : "Elisabetta Canalis doesn't want children with George Clooney". www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2011.
“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.”
“A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.”

Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.130, Harvard University Press
“I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.”
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
“It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.”

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