Aboe Bakr Quotes & Sayings

And the farther I walked away, the more upset I got, at the loss of one of the few stable and unchanging docking-points in the world that I'd taken for granted: familiar faces, glad greetings ... — Donna Tartt

Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other. — Harry Browne

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

They haven't God's word like they thought: God doesn't have any last word. If He did He'd be dead. But He isn't dead; and He changes and grows, like everything else that's alive — John Wyndham

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else. — Gary Lineker

When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you. — William Boyd

A scar means, I survived. — Chris Cleave

I essentially write for myself. — Leon Uris

I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships. — Mal Peet

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward. — Hans Rosling

Show true cost of FICA-double what is shown on paychecks. — Newt Gingrich

We don't see them, but, invisible, they act all around us. — Umberto Eco

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself? — Shirley Hazzard