Zakira Gordon Quotes

Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator simply means that there will be another dictator ... the policies they follow will probably not be radically different. If we look around the world, we quickly realize that these policies will not be radically different from those that would be followed by a democracy either. ~ Gordon Tullock

Can you hover over your body for a while and peer beyond the fog that imbues the mind and sense the essence of a deeper you? ~ Garey Gordon

In the underdeveloped countries, we have young men and women, many of them of capacity but without opportunity to improve themselves. They cannot do so without help. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

MasterChef Junior for me was about working closely with these kids and getting them to reeducate their parents to understand that food is as important educationally as Math and English and it's important that we don't take it for granted. ~ Gordon Ramsay

In "Shadow of a Doubt," I was trying to describe the connection you feel when your eyes meet another person's. You project all kinds of things on those eyes, feel them seeing into and past you, sometimes feel the sex behind them too. ~ Kim Gordon

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman (David Cameron) may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist. ~ Gordon Brown

When you release a trauma on one level of your energetic being, you will experience relief on all other levels simultaneously. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A fisherman always sees another fisherman from afar ~ Gordon Gekko

In a world resistant to change, we have to take matters into our own hands. Modern society and culture fails to support our healing by literally encouraging us to sustain our addictions. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Let's not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man's-land, halfway between dreams and reality. ~ Arthur Gordon

Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification. ~ James Gordon Bennett

Even innocence itself has many a wile,
And will not dare to trust itself with truth,
And love is taught hypocrisy from youth. ~ George Gordon Byron

Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them. ~ Gordon Neufeld

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love. ~ Gordon Parks

Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers. ~ Gordon Brown

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it! ~ Ruth Gordon

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses. ~ Gordon Strachan

As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union. ~ John Brown Gordon

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust. ~ Gordon Brown

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Sophie dear,' I said. 'Are you in love with him - with this spider-man?'
'Oh, don't call him that - please - we can't any of us help being what we are. His name's Gordon. He's kind to me, David. He's fond of me. You've got to have as little as I have to know how much that means. You've never known loneliness. You can't understand the awful emptiness that's waiting all round us here. I'd have given him babies gladly, if I could ... I - oh, why do they do that to us? Why didn't they kill me? It would have been kinder than this ... '
She sat without a sound. The tears squeezed out from under the closed lids and ran down her face. I took her hand between my own.
I remembered watching. The man with his arm linked in the woman's, the small figure on top of the pack-horse waving back to me as they disappeared into the trees. Myself desolate, a kiss still damp on my
cheek, a lock tied with a yellow ribbon in my hand. I looked at her now, and my heart ached. ~ John Wyndham

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own. ~ Adam Lindsay Gordon

A lot of artists get famous overseas first. I don't know what it is here. I have a large underground following in the U.S., but I don't get the airplay as much as I do in, say, Australia. Over there, they can play whatever they like, it seems, but not so much here. ~ Wynter Gordon

While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support. ~ Gordon Brown

Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from television screens into our homes is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society. The fact that a television set is on six or seven hours every day in most of the homes of America says something of tremendous importance. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson. ~ Wynter Gordon

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s. ~ Kim Gordon

I feel like I'm getting to be a better driver every day. ~ Jeff Gordon

You are more than your job title. ~ Rachel Singer Gordon

And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can. ~ Alexander Gordon Smith

It is important that we note the weaknesses in our financial system, and work toward implementing solutions before the next crisis comes. Gordon L. Eade ~ Kenneth Eade

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God. ~ Gordon H. Clark

If you do or don't like something it's because of that thing and not because it has the right politics behind them or the right company or the right connections. It's really just about the thing itself. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt