Asmahan Movies Quotes & Sayings

He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man. — Charles Dickens

They are ordinarily men to whom forms are of paramount importance. Their field of action lies among the external phenomena of life. They possess the vast ability in grasping, and arranging, and appropriating to themselves the big, heavy, solid unrealities, such as gold, landed estate, offices of trust and emolument, and public honors. With these materials, and with deeds of goodly aspect, done in the public eye, an individual of this class builds up, as it were, a tall and stately edifice, which, in the view of other people, and ultimately in his own view, is no other than the man's character, or the man himself. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

With barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises — Jane Austen

It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good. — Stephen Malkmus

Well, you show me the science [that being gay is not a choice] and I'll be persuaded. — Herman Cain

Laws may be good, laws may be just. Laws may give us a sense of what's right and wrong, a sense of morality. Laws can put barriers, hedges, gates around how far evil is allowed to go. But what law cannot do is truly rehabilitate us. It cannot restore to us the dignity that God wants us to have as the creatures made in his image. What law cannot do is truly take the evil, the anger, the hatred out of our hearts. — Skye Jethani

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head? — Francis Collins

I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times. — Jaclyn Smith

When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime. — Jon Krakauer

Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the numbers don't lie. I think it's just because in the West crowds tend to be manufactured by commercial interesting, and they have, or at least should have, a responsibility for keeping people safe. — John Seabrook

THE LAST THING I LEARNED ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS by swimming in the pond was there are more lifeguards than sharks. What I mean is, for the most part, other people aren't out to get us. — Donald Miller