Abdul Rashid Abdul Quotes & Sayings

Someone's war was slashing apart his delicate tapestry of companions. I was Odysseus, I understood the shifting and temporary vetoes of war. But he was a man who made friends with difficulty. He was a man who knew two or three people in his life, and they had turned out now to be the enemy. — Michael Ondaatje

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno. — Deborah Harkness

I never expected anything to be given to me. — Taylor Swift

Where you come from does matter
but not nearly as much as where you are headed. — Jodi Picoult

When the rains make your feathers wet, don't sit and cry and don't wait for your wet feathers to get dry before you start to fly; start flying and your wet feathers will start drying! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it. — Bill Maher

Think good and positive thoughts and you will attract good and positive things, think bad and negative thoughts and you will attract bad and negative things. It's as simple as that in theory, but it takes time to master it fully, it takes time, patience and practice. — Jeanette Coron

Satan, you clown, you want to dissolve me with your charms. Well, I want it. I want it! Stab me with a pitchfork, sprinkle me with fire! — Arthur Rimbaud

[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy. — Cleopatra

An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented. — Lemony Snicket

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area. — Alexander Liberman

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history. — John McCain

I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and productions. — Christian Fennesz