Amtul Mateen Quotes & Sayings

Be quietly confident. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The wind was blowing from the east and the cedars bent before it, - blowing from the east like the breath of the war god. And Fred and Stanley were waving their hats gayly back to her, while the cedars bent and the wind blew from the east. They were like her own boys marching off to war. Children of her children, she loved them as she had loved their parents. Did a woman never get over loving? Deep love brought relatively deep heartaches. Why could not a woman of her age, whose family was raised, relinquish the hold upon her emotions? Why could she not have a peaceful old age, wherein there entered neither great affection nor its comrade, great sorrow? She had seen old women who seemed not to care as she was caring, whose emotions seemed to have died with their youth. Could she not be one of them? For a long time she stood in the window and looked at the cedars twisting before the east wind, like so many helpless women under the call from the east. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft — Tony Benn

It is amazing that, though I am small and ungifted and barely educated, even I can appreciate the scale of the universe. And from this perch in space, for this moment at least, it seems unimportant whether someone made it, or if it made itself. — Stephanie Oakes

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy. — Franz Schubert

I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child. — Paz De La Huerta

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the mist of all others, and if need be against all others. — Bohdi Sanders