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AMA ATA AIDOO At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why o...
AMA ATA AIDOO People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
AMA ATA AIDOO It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
ATA AIDOO They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
ATA AIDOO I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many ot...
ATA AIDOO For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and aut...
ATA AIDOO A i urreni njerëzit?
Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Günleri say, senedini say, büyüklerini say, ama yerinde sayma.
Emek ver, kulak ver, bilgi ve...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
DOROTHY BRYANT We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform ...
MIRA BARTOK Humans make mistakes.
AUSTIN BUTLER Experiences and memories make us who we are, not just our genes.
MERLYN GABRIEL MILLER Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these d...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama be...
GEORGES PEREC Greater cane does not make greater humans. (Une plus grande canne - N'agrandit l'homme.)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable...
CASSANDRA CLARE Sersem ürer, genişler ama kendini geliştirmez.
FABIO DE PROPRIS Life is your world in pictures. Don’t just take memories, make memories.
LILY CHATTERJEE Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.
AMIT KALANTRI Todos me adoram... E quem me ama?
PEDRO BANDEIRA İnsanları genel anlamda seviyorum ama kimseye tahammülüm yok.
OğUZ ATAY Zaman gelecek ve ata binmek bütün bir toplum tarafından ciddi bir hayvan hakları ihlali olarak g...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Solo después de casarse descubrió Galip que en la vida de aquella persona anónima a la que las es...
ORHAN PAMUK Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.
KATHERINE APPLEGATE We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.
ATTICUS POETRY I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your ...
AGNES OBEL Ceza kaldırılabilir; ama suç insanın içinde sonsuza kadar yaşar.
OVID Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new dayd...
GASTON BACHELARD The animals make less mistakes than the humans.
BILL BERLONI There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I hav...
IRWIN SHAW There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't...
IRWIN SHAW Your memories don't make you who you are.
DAN KROKOS To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort o...
BECKY CHAMBERS Chi ti ama ti aspetta(Who loves you waits for You)
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) We cannot kill all the chickens and ducks to prevent bird flu from spreading among them and to human...
DR SHIGERU OMI A scientist is not to teach humans, but to serve humans A philosopher is not to teach humans, but to...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Kapatılmışsınız ama yalnız değilsiniz. Açık sokaklarda yürüyüp de tutsak olan niceleri v...
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is not down in any map; true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLE That sounds like her. We did make some good memories.
ALEXIS JENNINGS The things that go wrong often make the best memories.
GRETCHEN RUBIN If you can do that [create a synthetic hypo-campus for humans], in theory you could actually introdu...
JONATHON MORENO I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of t...
NEIL GAIMAN It’s not magic. I remember because I make comparisons. Not in terms of better or worse, just diffe...
SHANE L. KOYCZAN I am leaving to enjoy retirement like others my age, but am confident I will be leaving ATA in good ...
GEORGE MIKELSONS Dışarıdaki hayvanlar, bir domuzların yüzlerine, bir insanların yüzlerine bakıyor, ama birbir...
GEORGE ORWELL No tienes por qué sufrir en soledad cuando sabes que alguien te ama.
MARCOS LLEMES People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I've implemented an architecture with ATA drives that spins them down when not in use. The access is...
CRAIG TAYLOR This law not only is going to make the rivers safer for humans, it's great news for the fish too, eq...
BILL WELD The memories that you make today, you get to keep forever.
SCOTTIE SOMERS We all know this is a guessing game. It's humans evaluating humans, and you know what? We're not inf...
CHARLEY CASSERLY Nerede olursa olsun, toprağı kaz, bir hazine bulacaksın;
ama bir çiftçinin inancıyla kazm...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Degradation is a continuum, ... In virtually every ecosystem we visited, humans have colonized the l...
MICHAEL FAY Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.
JOHN GREEN Memories are what we cherish so lets make the present worth cherishing.
AMIT ABRAHAM Memories are what we cherish so let's make the present worth cherishing.
AMIT ABRAHAM It is good people who make good places.
ANNA SEWELL DIE WITH MEMORIES, NOT DREAMS
AAMIR SARFRAZ (AAMIR RAJPUT KHAN) Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices -- which continue to escalate -- and declining fares hav...
GEORGE MIKELSONS Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices -- which continue to escalate -- and declining fares hav...
GEORGE MIKELSONS There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I...
IRWIN SHAW IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remo...
CARL ORFF It takes brave humans to make laws, but braver ones to obey them.
GENESIS DEL CASTILLO A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.
NIGERIAN PROVERB “A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.”
ESAN MAGAZINE Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices, which continue to escalate, and declining fares have ne...
GEORGE MIKELSONS Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices, which continue to escalate, and declining fares have ne...
GEORGE MIKELSONS They're just complementary in our minds. We want to be in all the places where our customers are. We...
WENDY CLARK I think Indiana has those things in place but not necessarily so much more than a lot of other place...
CLARK KELLOGG We've had way too many busts. They've been in different places with different people, so it's not on...
WAYNE DICKENS The AMA has royally screwed up this time and they're going to have to fix it.
BEN BOSTROM My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON ....because people die but their memories not.
M.H. RAKIB Memories are made from moments not money. Spend less money & have more moments. The value is in the ...
NATALIE PHILLIP Good Morning Humans...'It's Monday don't forget to be awesome, make it a good one
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO io, mio caro, non credo nell'amore universale. L'amore esiste in dosi modiche. Si possono amare fors...
AMOS OZ There's this special talent that humans have that they can be unhappy no matter where they are. But ...
STEFAN BACHMANN It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.
MARK VONNEGUT It is not the places that grace men, but men the places
AGESILAUS Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
JONATHAN SWIFT Ana, you make me ache in places that aren't even physical.
JODI MEADOWS Person who loves God can not hate humans.
ANUJ SOMANY Humans are predators, not prey. Always remember that.
DIA REEVES Türlü türlü cesaret vardır," dedi. "Düşmanlarımıza karşı koymak yürek
ister, ama do...
J.K. ROWLING People will not get remembered the memories will.
ARDIT BALISHA Sometimes you miss the memories, not the person.
OLASOT Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT Humans make art to remember and be remembered,” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgett...
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AMA ATA AIDOO They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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