Abdurahman Idris Quotes & Sayings

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself. — Carl Jung

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably. — Thomas Bernhard

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases. — Jane Hirshfield

Why are they doing this, Pa?" Kim asks. "Because they are destroyers of things. — Loung Ung

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry! — Pat Sajak

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be. — Thomas Beecham

I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne. — George Gascoigne

I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl. — Christina Aguilera

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal. — Charles Stanley

I believe that all things are possible under God. — Brooke Elliott

It taught me that ... there can be no true humility and no true compassion where there is no courage. — Whittaker Chambers

The price of greatness is responsibilty. — Winston Churchill James