#ever

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#highest #most #never #perilous #point

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#also #better #certain #condition #conditions

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#activists #administration #bush #bush administration #camp

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ↗

— Abba Eban

#duties #embodiment #jews #living #might

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers. ↗

— Franz Boas

#been #case #deviate #every #exceeding

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches. ↗

— Franz Boas

#consciously #know #life #nevertheless #private

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time. ↗

— Franz Boas

#currents #darwin #due #helped #hope

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#around #being #big #clown #constantly

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#born #child #ever #i #i was born

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#insist #lot #persevere #you