Djebbari Youssef Quotes & Sayings

To me, money is absolutely irrelevant. — Bruce Greenwald

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade. — Miranda Hart

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it. — Plato

If and when I found him and he hadn't got his danger fix, he'd be way more than just disgruntled. More like royally ticked off. Not the best time to share my recent revelation. One that shocked the heck out of me. One I wasn't sure how to phrase.
"Jake, you're the love of my life."
Ugh.
"You complete me."
Too Jerry Maguire.
"I want to spend the rest of my life with you."
Gawd, no.
I felt my lip curl as I pictured him fixing his intense blue eyes on mine, waiting for me to explain. As if I could. This sudden about-face didn't even make sense to me. I just wanted him, dammit, even with his insane stunts, like hang glider tag. — Betsy Cook Speer

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price? — Nancy Lublin

How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like. — Maurice Nicoll

Although looked down upon, the idiots seemed to have the more peaceful lives: nothing was expected of them. — Charles Bukowski

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced ... because these things are unreliable and fleeting. — Charles Stanley

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies. — Abdolkarim Soroush

She stared at me "You have a message," she said. "On you machine."
I looked over at my answering machine. Sure enough, the light was blinking. The woman really was a detective.
"It's some girl," La Guerta said. "She sounds kind of sleepy and happy. You got a girlfriend, Dexter?" there was a strange hint of a challenge in her voice.
"You know how it is," I said. "Women today are so forward, and when you are as handsome as I am they absolutely fling themselves at your head." Perhaps an unfortunate choice of words; as I said it I couldn't help thinking of the woman's head flung at me not so long ago.
"Watch out," La Guerta said. "Sooner or later one of them will stick." I had no idea what she thought that meant, but it was a very unsettling image.
"I'm sure you're right," I said. "Until then, carpe diem."
"What?"
"It's Latin," I said. "It means, complain in the daylight. — Jeff Lindsay

Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense. — Julie Anne Long