Ajami Quotes & Sayings

She would do whatever she had to, even make this man's life a living hell if it were required, and judging by the arrogance of Thomas Glanville, that possibility was quite likely. — Tamara Hughes

It's easier for me to let the game just come to me. — Carmelo Anthony

From the inaccessible mountains, across the desert which no mortal foot has trod, far as the confines of the unknown ocean, breathes the spirit of the eternal Creator; and every atom to which he has given existence finds favour in his sight. Ah, how often at that time has the flight of a bird, soaring above my head, inspired me with the desire of being transported to the shores of the immeasurable waters, there to quaff the pleasures of life from the foaming goblet of the Infinite, and to partake, if but for a moment even, with the confined powers of my soul, the beatitude of that Creator who accomplishes all things in himself, and through himself! My — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next. — Taylor Swift

These others
the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people
have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics. — Fouad Ajami

The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world. — Fouad Ajami

The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all. — Fouad Ajami

My mom once told me that's the secret of life. We all think we're frauds. Everybody's winging it. — Elan Mastai

This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses. — Michel Foucault