Famous Quotes & Sayings

Austin Carlile

Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don't mold yourself to others or to what others think. You're an individual. You're special.

Aung San Suu Kyi

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think corporations should give more attention to this suffering and should wait to invest until there is a responsible government in Burma. I do not think it is a good idea to separate economics from politics; in fact, I do not think economics can be separated from politics It's quite understandable that many business concerns think only about their own profits It's up to the public to put as much pressure as it can on these companies, through shareholder resolutions and public actions.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We have been making constant efforts, all the time, to start dialogue with the SLORC, but you know it takes two. We don't want a monologue. We would like a substantive political dialogue among the SLORC, political leaders including myself, and leaders of ethnic groups-exactly as stipulated in the U.N. General Assembly resolution on Burma.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Aung San Suu Kyi

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

Aung San Suu Kyi

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Arvid Carlsson

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

Artur Schnabel

I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.

Artur Schnabel

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.

Asa Hutchinson

Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

Asa Gray

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.

Asa Butterfield

The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice.

Asa Butterfield

I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.

Asa Butterfield

I play a lot of strategy games and team and reactionary games. So it's a different sort of skill that you're practicing.

Asa Butterfield

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

Asa Butterfield

Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

Arundhati Roy

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.

Arundhati Roy

Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.

Arundhati Roy

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

Arundhati Roy

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.

Arundhati Roy

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

Arundhati Roy

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.