Dounya Al Quotes & Sayings

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives. — Heather O'Reilly

Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend. — Geraldine Brooks

Is Heathcliff not here?' she demanded, pulling off her gloves, and displaying fingers wonderfully whitened with doing nothing and staying indoors. — Emily Bronte

There is a scene in Arthur Miller's play Incident at Vichy in which an upper-middle-class professional man appears before the Nazi authority that has occupied his town and shows his credentials: his university degrees, his letters of reference from prominent citizens, and so on. The Nazi asks him, "Is that everything you have?" The man nods. The Nazi throws it all in the wastebasket and tells him: "Good, now you have nothing." The man, whose self-esteem had always depended on the respect of others, is emotionally destroyed. Frankl would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond. — Viktor E. Frankl

Success," Winston Churchill noted, "consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Maybe — Robert Lane

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy. — Ty Cobb

Gina sat with the extremely quiet Tanberk on one side and Rebecca — Darcie Boleyn

Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein. — Rose Tremain

KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don't care if you're Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It's that SIMPLE. — Carew Papritz