Balqees Fathi Quotes & Sayings

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge. — Ethel Merman

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold. — Lena Headey

People - whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insulting. If you're going to really make peace, you have got to confront each other and look each other in the eye, and that's what's happen - I'm always remember Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Yasser Arafat and the reluctance in - Yasser Arafat put his hand down and the reluctance of Yitzhak Rabin, but then he had that second and then he just shook the hand. — Warren Mundine

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature. — Lauren Willig

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order ... — Plotinus

The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or not, it is not possible to create an ideal society with imperfect people. And this, unfortunately, we are. So the main purpose for Nazism as well as for Communism was to create a 'new person'. In order to make room for it, the world needed to be rid of its non-perfect models. — Mart Laar

You want to build something what's been tore down, choose a woman. You want to tear something down, choose a man. — Adrian Selby

I was going to be in an acting school in London, and then I promptly got thrown out of an acting school in London. Well, it wasn't that I got thrown out as much as I was not invited back, which is the same thing, just more polite. — Chris Eigeman

If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that's become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.' — Vince Gilligan

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt

Neither fear your death's day nor long for it. — Martial

Who would have thought, Mr. Jiabao,
that of this whole family, the lady with the short skirt would be the one with
a conscience? — Aravind Adiga

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Woke me up," she whispers. "I'm sure it did." I'm fascinated. "What were you dreaming about?" "You," she says in a small voice. — E.L. James