Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Philosopher | May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970
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Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. And that's how I have to deal with it.
Whitney Houston
It's all for love... With the love, L.O.V.E.
Michael Jackson
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The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.
Miriam Makeba
Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Rabindranath Tagore
This is approximately the way Christendom relates to the essentially Christian, the unconditioned. After seventeen, eighteen detours and running all around someone finally has his finite existence assured, and then we receive a sermon about Seek first the kingdom of God. Is this sobriety or is this intoxication? p. 112
Søren Kierkegaard
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The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
Rumi
I will probably die singing.
Miriam Makeba
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Zig Ziglar
Her voice makes you stop the car and peer skywards in wonder.
Oumou Sangaré
I encouraged the leadership in its time of weakness. Now that they are strong, I'm allowed not to applaud. If a Palestinian state is established, I will be in the opposition. That's my natural place.
Mahmoud Darwish
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Don't disparage the day that still has an hour of light in its hand.
Chinua Achebe
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.
Søren Kierkegaard
It's you who invokes the rain in the town. But the rain doesn't soak my soul. My soul's for you... ...and deep down there... ...celebrations all around! When I behold you... ...it seems your body's made up of the soft rose petals! Your lips... ...are they the same artist as they had once been?
Soumitra Chatterjee
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Sarojini Naidu writes instant poetry where images and metaphors come rolling ready on the hot plates of imagination. Her poetry is intensely emotionally, at times passionate to the point of eroticism and always has a spring.
Sarojini Naidu
I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.
Yvon Chouinard
His generosity..
Rachid Taha