Afifi Alaa Quotes & Sayings

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name! — Blaise Pascal

He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense. — Cornel West

That moment. That instant when your fingers curl round the handles of a shiny, uncreased bag - and all the gorgeous new things inside it become yours. What's it like? It's like going hungry for days, then cramming your mouth full of warm buttered toast. It's like waking up and realizing it's the weekend. It's like the better moments of sex. Everything else is blocked out of your mind. It's pure, selfish pleasure. — Sophie Kinsella

It was the most romantic plane ever made. — Ken Follett

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day. — Rudyard Kipling

Her voice was soft, ethereal, the sound of a lullaby half-remembered. The songs she sang, one by one, held Celaena in place. Songs of distant lands, of forgotten legends, of lovers forever waiting to be reunited. — Sarah J. Maas

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then. — George Ogilvie

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here. — Ken Livingstone

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way. — Priscilla Presley

Where does love end and madness begin, — Jan-Philipp Sendker

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.
For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie. — Lauren Oliver