Berberthin Quotes & Sayings

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?'
" 'The way I want it?'
" 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?'
" 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.'
" 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.'
" 'Mess it up how?'
" 'Forgot it.'
" 'Forgot?'
" 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else. — Toni Morrison

Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose. — Janet Morris

My travels inevitably begin with copious research and planning. I began this kind of planning long ago when I was very young and anxious to hit the road. Hours were spent pouring over junior encyclopedias memorizing the names of exotic-sounding cities
Addis, Ababa, Samarkand, Damascus. Lengthy lists were written detailing the most minute necessities: three pairs of socks, two pencils. spare batteries, rope. — Barbara Hodgson

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past. — David Halberstam

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service. — Mahatma Gandhi

If you don't exist, then for you nothing exists. — Debasish Mridha

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses. — Lowell Thomas

Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast. — Richard Engel

Knowing how to fall is much more valuable than knowing how to walk. — Diogo Mainardi

It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The New Republic and you'll see there the radical evil that's associated with Islam, the Arabs as having a depraved culture, and so forth. These are impossible generalizations to make in the United States about any other religious or ethnic group. — Edward Said

Take notice of your emotions as well as logic. Emotions have their own logic. And try to go with the flow. — Graeme Simsion

In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class. — Helen Zille

Do you usually show so little self restraint, special agent? Or do you ask all the girls to marry you? — Tate Hallaway

Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two ... — Richard Russo

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask. — Susan Sontag