Afifah Shukri Quotes & Sayings

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong. — Walter Isaacson

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle — Jeffrey Archer

revealing a splotchy red forehead, shiny with sweat. — Lauren Oliver

I can't listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I'm so obsessed with getting the right tone of voice. — Michael Angarano

I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust. — Ban Ki-moon

I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an international ban since 1989, and that 60% of forest elephants have already been wiped out. At this rate, experts say populations will become extinct in the next decade. No one needs ivory. — Ian Somerhalder

'I scrape under a nail and I pull out dirt. I pull off an overlay and I smell urine. It's the rot of their lives seeping into their nailbeds, you see? They can fix their hair and paint their nails and run on a treadmill until they're anorexia's poster child, but they can't fix their lives ... lives of rotting perfection.' — Vicki Pettersson

When both lovers yearn to become entirely one being, to free each other and to develop each other to the greatest perfection, this is the highest form of love possible between a man and a woman ... To experience such love is to feel oneself doubled. Such feeling liberates and deepens the personality, inspires us to noble deeds and works of genius. — Nancy Horan

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore. — George Packer