Ahmed Matar Quotes & Sayings

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all. — Gabriel Marcel

I am afraid of the future; it seems to be a big box waiting for me. — Audrey Niffenegger

He always operated on the assumption that the straightforward approach was the best and most effective in any given situation. Say what you mean, mean what you say. The — Melanie Shawn

For me, Mama's cabinet had been full of mysteries and secrets to be puzzled out, like an adventure. For them it had been full of memories. And I had broken all of them. — Stephanie Burgis

I'm running [ for presidency] because we need to take our country back. — Bobby Jindal

Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change. — Martin Parr

Trust your feelings never disown your instincts. — N.G. Osborne

Of all of Napoleon's murders, the greatest and the most dreadful was of my father. — Elias Canetti

I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured ... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus. — Jonathan Meiburg

That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses. — Edgar Allan Poe

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work. — Stanley Kunitz

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair. — Newt Gingrich

Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter. — Mason Cooley

The army is the true nobility of our country. — Napoleon Bonaparte