Mohsin Hamid Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them. – Mohsin Hamid Artificial Quotes Birds Quotes Borders Quotes Constructs Quotes Flying Quotes Ignore Quotes Impulse Quotes Lines Quotes Maps Quotes Migrants Quotes National Quotes Overhead Quotes Prospective Quotes Unnatural Quotes If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy. In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.
Chuck Hagel Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors. – Chuck Hagel
Mark Vonnegut I didn’t like the ’60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it. – Mark Vonnegut
Leah Remini There was always pressure to make a Scientologist out of the people you were working with. – Leah Remini
Rube Goldberg And, uh, I’ve got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers. – Rube Goldberg
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