Barjas Quotes & Sayings

Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart. — Michael Ondaatje

In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank. — Anand Gopal

I love you," he said, and I wondered which one of us he was trying to convince. "You're like a secret nobody else has heard yet, and the selfish part of me is glad that other people don't know you the way I do, because if they saw how perfect you are, every one of them would try to steal you away from me. — Lisa Henry

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life. — Athol Fugard

We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know the truth requires understanding, the most difficult human art. It requires seeing all things at once, forward and backward, the way God sees. — Greg Iles

If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable. — June Jordan

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly. — Alexander Kotov

I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn't even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription. — Darin Strauss

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth. — Wallace Stegner

If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful. — Inazo Nitobe

Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage. — Damien Fahey