Aksamitne Quotes & Sayings

Try to study yourself and what is inside you, as the entire world lies in you. — Stephen Richards

The local Cairo clergy offered to issue a fatwa recognizing Napoleon as the legitimate ruler of Egypt - provided the entire French army formally convert to Islam. Napoleon actually considered the offer, but when it became clear that the muftis' demand included mass adult circumcision and total abstinence from wine, the conversion plan was scrapped. — Tom Reiss

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am."
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality. — Elle Thornton

Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. — Anais Nin

The art of making True promises within ones ownself is termed as Will (Sankalp) ... for beginners (like me) it is a tough learning and for siddhas; they just become that way ... effortlessly they sail ... — Dinesh Kumar

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world. — Zig Ziglar

What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice. — George Saunders

If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup. — Andy Gray

NO ONE IS CAPABLE OF FREEING ONESELF FROM SOCIETY. — Abdellah Taia

I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head. — Nicole Richie

But sadness was familiar; sadness was manageable. It didn't transform her, the way the raging anger did. She could remain herself and still feel this aching grief. — Aprilynne Pike

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent. — Franz Kafka