Amirouche Hammar Quotes & Sayings

For as long as I am your mother and you are my only child, i will worry and hope and pray for you. Do not ask the impossible. — Jennifer Beckstrand

Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too. — Frederick Buechner

This might make for an awkward situation. I have a talent for awkward situations. — Peter Davis

Great novels are above all great fairy tales ... literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. — Vladimir Nabokov

But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his forgiveness, was meant for them all, and for all their sins. The mercy and love of God are at work even in the midst of his enemies. It is the same Jesus Christ, who of his grace calls us to follow him, and whose grace saves the murderer who mocks him on the cross in his last hour. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves. — Auliq Ice

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this. — Patrick DeWitt

Ever play 'mirror mirror on the wall' with two mirrors facing each other? — Josh Stern

As a police officer it has been my experience that pedophiles are able to operate and stay functional over long periods of time and victimize scores, even hundreds, of children, because no one wants to believe his or her own intuitions about the symptoms in the perpetrator. — James Lee Burke

The priest read his thing. I didn't listen. There was the coffin. What had been Betty was in there. It was very hot. The sun came down in one yellow sheet. A fly circled around. Halfway through the halfway funeral two guys in working clothes came carrying my wreath. The roses were dead, dead and dying in the heat, and they leaned the thing up against a nearby tree. Near the end of the service my wreath leaned forward and fell flat on its face. Nobody picked it up. Then it was over. — Charles Bukowski

I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books. — George R R Martin

The sports pages are men's pages, although they are not presented as such. / ... / On foreign fields, the men win their trophies, or lose their honour, doing battle on the nation's behalf. The readers, mainly men, are invited to see these male exploits in terms of the whole homeland, and, thus, men's concerns are presented as if defining the whole national honour.
The parallel between sport and warfare seems obvious ... — Michael Billig