Charles Issawi quotes
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“A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.”
-- Charles IssawiSource : Charles Philip Issawi (1999). “Growing Up Different: Memoirs of a Middle East Scholar”, Darwin Press, Incorporated
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“Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.”
-- Charles IssawiSource : Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr
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“Most things get steadily worse.”
-- Charles IssawiSource : Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr
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“The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.”
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
Source : Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.463, Oxford University Press
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“There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.”