Al Akhbar Quotes & Sayings

I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important. — Patricia Polacco

The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed. — Vincent Van Gogh

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can't quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. This is, I believe, different from the suicidal wish of those who are in so much pain that death feels like relief, different from the suicide I would later attempt, trying to escape that pain. This is a wish to murder yourself; the connotation of kill is too mild. This is a belief that you deserve slow torture, violent death. — Marya Hornbacher

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. — Aldous Huxley

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream. — Brandon Sanderson

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band. — Yul Vazquez

Life is a test. It is only a test
meaning that's all it is. Nothing more, but nothing less. It is a test of our convictions and priorities, our faith and faithfulness, our patience and resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. It is a test to determine if we want to be part of the kingdom of God more than we want anything else. — Sheri Dew

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process. — Jorge Luis Borges

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. — Xander Berkeley

Entrepreneurs make profits by serving the needy. Politicians make profits by creating the needy. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

He owns Douchedome. All assholes compete in the douche form of the Olympics at Douchedome. — Calia Read

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with. — Patricia Arquette

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60. — Linda Evans