Al Hashmi Travels Quotes & Sayings

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. — James A. Baldwin

Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work. — Carl Honore

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that! — Tony Danza

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art. — Paul Auster

But ... she didn't know him, did she? Marigold was suddenly struck by how badly she wanted to know him. — Stephanie Perkins

The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It's all religious performance, and God isn't impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith. — Steve McVey

Some days it just didn't pay to get out of bed; in that sense at least, this day was no different from any others. — Stacia Kane