Ameera Quotes & Sayings

She tried to make the pain go away by telling herself it was for the best, that it was all part of God's plan, that she would one day see the wisdom behind it. But despite the her efforts to appease her restless souls, she felt a cold chill take over her, inside and out. — Ameera Al Hakawati

Knowledge can be a curse.
The moment you gain it, you thirst for more. — Ameera Al Hakawati

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night. — E. M. Forster

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius. — Ron Chernow

Holden found one helpless little hand that closed feebly on his finger. And the clutch ran through his body till it settled about his heart. Till then his sole thought had been for Ameera. He began to realise that there was some one else in the world, ... — Rudyard Kipling

The stars are out tonight. All of them. — James Halat

. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances. — Oscar Wilde

Dubai is ... after all,
a lonely, transitory place.
It's hard to maintain relationships
when people are always coming and going. — Ameera Al Hakawati

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair. — Eric Felten

I have had to learn the hard way that the people who you think love you unconditionally, actually only love the idea of you and when you fall from grace, they no longer want you. — Ameera Al Hakawati

A good conscience will prevail a bad decision. — Anthony Liccione

And every time she hears from him, another pebble of hope joins the little cluster she has collected. — Ameera Al Hakawati

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention. — Charles B. Rangel

We don't have a whole lot of people living hand-to-mouth in the Writers Guild, we get paid really well, and a lot of the things we fought for, in my case, I can negotiate. I can negotiate higher DVD rates or anything I want, it's not going to be a minimum basic agreement. But I do think it was important to stand up to them. I do think that we got things in the deal that we wouldn't have gotten had we not stood up to them. — Edward Allen Bernero

The modern world did have a few advantages.
Nice threads. Juicy steaks. Little black dresses ... — Lola Dodge

Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity. — Carlo Carretto

No one has the complete freedom to choose everything in his or her life, sis. They may think they do. They may think they're choosing those jeans because they like them or that house because of that location, or that car because of the speed, but the reality is, they choose the jeans because some celebrity wore them, they choose that house because they needed to live near the kid's school, or that car because it was the only one they could afford that could live up to their social standard. — Ameera Al Hakawati

...Men cannot come any closer to immortality without going insane. — Barry Hughart

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian. — Gore Vidal

Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been. — David Halberstam

Certain books come to meet me, as do people. — Elizabeth Bowen