Beghairat Aurat Quotes & Sayings

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem. — John Barton

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up. — Stephen King

He fumbled around with his eyes closed. He groped about, reaching for the comfortable and familiar shaft of his hammer. — Neil Gaiman

It is loving the Cross that one finds one heart, for Divine Love cannot live without suffering. — Bernadette Soubirous

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing. — Seth Godin

The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the buyability of the regional press. Now we, too, have hired that clapped-out old floozy, Miss Rosie Scenario, and sent her whoring through the streets. — Christopher Hitchens

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
from The Light, That Never Dies — Aberjhani

In vain I warned other Arab leaders, those pleasure-seeking gluttons who only listen to the fawning and simpering of those who owe them favors. There was a full complement of them at Cairo, lined up like onions, spying on each other on the sly, half of them so conceited they could not stop behaving like constipated patriarchs, the other half too thick to be able to look serious. Arrivistes who thought they had really arrived, comic-opera presidents unable to shake off their country-bumpkin reflexes, petrodollar emirs looking like rabbits straight out of the magician's hat, sultans wrapped in their robes like ghosts, disgusted at the blathering eulogies the speakers were trotting out ad infinitum. Why were they there? They cared for nothing that did not concern their personal fortunes. Busy stuffing their pockets, they refused to look up to see how dizzyingly fast the world was changing or how tomorrow's storm clouds of hate were gathering on the horizon. — Yasmina Khadra

Work hard, be yourself, and have fun! — Michelle Kwan

The outcome is to delegitimize and deconstruct the kings in effective ways in order to show that while they occupy the forms of power, they lack the substance of power. — Walter Brueggemann

The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life. — Mark Rothko

the authority of Jesus is ultimate, the — Lesslie Newbigin

You have a tale to tell, you are ancient, and deeply broken. I feel love for you and cherish that it is what it is and nothing more. — Anne Rice

At least books could never let you down. — Rebecca Raisin

Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through, when I am dead and gone that's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, but I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through. — Sue Monk Kidd