Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
Abu Bakar Bashir
Recitation: by Male by Female
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
HappinessHappyBe HappyForget
We wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of success for us.
Matthew Ramsey
SuccessSongMeasureCreatingLiving
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine
FearShameEveryoneFaultsCureHe
Of course it's an honour to be fighting at UFC 100, but I don't sit back and think about that. For me, it is only ever about winning.
Michael Bisping
MeWinningThinkFightingBackSit
My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.
St. Lucia
PositiveSadTimeMyselfMomentYou
What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it's really like... living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning.
Troy Polamalu
TruthTimeWalkBeginningChurch
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
Mary Astell
RespectWifeManOpinionSexHer
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
Joseph Monninger
FlySwimJetMuchTiltDoes
When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
Jonny Wilkinson
CloudsMeYouBecomeSearchingAir
The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.
David Suzuki
BalancePeopleGreenThinkBackWay
For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.
Pico Iyer
PeopleCubaGreatestResourceBeen
I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!
Peter Carey
BookSomeoneNewWantDamnAlways
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