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Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

Mahmoud Darwish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: palestinian
Birth: March 13, 1941 - August 9, 2008

Topics

Poetry Wall Growing March Grass

Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.

John Barrasso

Power People Plants Green Building

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

Joe Wilson

Responsibility Government War Die Go

I'm always interested in the challenge of doing something new.

Joel Grey

Challenge Doing New Always Something

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director.

Andrew Lau

Me Famous Want Director Like

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

Max von Sydow

People Know Why Scare Perhaps

A corporation that is publicly traded, it has one goal: to make money. It doesn't have a soul. If it does have a soul, it comes from the people who run it.

John Lee Hancock

Money Soul People Goal Run Who

What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.

Steven Johnson

Yourself Smart Ideas Saying Better

I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile.

Sissy Spacek

Me Tough Back Summer Play Over

The things that excite me are staying home and cooking.

Troye Sivan

Home Cooking Me Things Staying

We have a lot of freedom to express ourselves. When you see us playing on the field, I guess you can make that out. This batting unit, especially, is fearless. We want to go out there and achieve the best possible result.

Rohit Sharma

Freedom Best Fearless Result You Go

Obama has a strong record on immigration enforcement, outdoing both Republican and Democratic predecessors. He has deported over 1 million immigrants, focusing on those with criminal records. As documented by many nonpartisan sources, by 2011, Obama had reduced illegal immigration crossings to net zero.

Donna Brazile

Strong Immigration Immigrants Over

I think it's time to explore our relationship to the hereafter and the now and determine whether or not there is a part mankind can play at this time to forestall the nuclear bubble breaking and the world coming to an end.

David Seltzer

Relationship Time World Think End