Al Khalifa Family Quotes & Sayings

When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on. — Bonnie Tyler

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable. — Christopher Hitchens

Becoming a linchpin is not an act of selfishness. I see it as an act of generosity, — Seth Godin

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves. — Shunryu Suzuki

When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet. — C.S. Lewis

The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness. — Atul Gawande

Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work. — Susan Egan

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. — Richard Dawkins

I think it was 89.2% cheers and 11.8% boos, but I'm used to that. — Shaquille O'Neal

Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible. — Paulo Coelho

The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not. — Joseph Hall