Aishath Abdul Quotes & Sayings

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin

I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming. — Jon Beason

My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested. — Ben Saunders

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals. — Harry Hay

All that work: his generous patronage of the arts, the vast sums of money he had donated to worthy causes, setting up charitable organizations . . . for what? In the end, none of those good works had redeemed him in the eyes of others. People think that men like me give money away to buy forgiveness for a sin or out of vanity, when it's the winner's pathetic tribute to the loser. Look at me, we seem to be begging, I need you too. I need you to accept me, to admire me, to love me. — Carmen Posadas

What I remember most clearly is how it felt. I'd just finished painting a red fire engine-like the one I often walked past near my grandparents' house. Suddenly the teachers, whose names I've long forgotten, closed in on my desk. They seemed unusually impressed, and my still dripping fire engine was immediately and ceremoniously pinned up. I don't know what they might have said, but their unexpected attention and having something I'd made given a place of honor on the wall created an overwhelming and totally unfamiliar sense of pride inside me. I loved that feeling, and I wanted to feel it again and again. That desire, I suppose, was the beginning of my career.
I have no idea where my fire engine painting ended up, but I never forgot the basic layout. Several decades later, it served as the inspiration for this sketch for an illustration in a book called Why the chicken crossed the Road. — David Macaulay

No is a false perception.
Yes is a positive conception.
Go with reality and reason. — Debasish Mridha

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original. — David Bowie

You never do anything without a reason." "Of course not. Why do anything without a reason?" "Don't start up with your circular logic. — Richelle Mead

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. — Edward Abbey

Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon. — Stephen King

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy? — Philip Roth

I thought I was the crazy one," she continued. "I mean, who the hell falls in love in one day?"
"We the hell do. — Ophelia London

In my life, no three miles have been flat and no three days have had sun. I've been brave in the past, but now I'm beyond devastated. My grief is like dense clouds that cannot be dispersed. I can't think beyond the blackness of my clothes and heart. — Lisa See

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business. — Faith Ford