Elegant Spaces Quotes & Sayings

WHITE AMERICANS HAVE A VERY UNUSUAL SENSE OF HISTORY. They make it up as they go along, constantly revising to suit their tastes in a manner that would make Stalin blush. Very few of them saw any irony in the fact that during a recent nasty Balkans conflict, when Uncle Sam intervened to stop the Serbs from ethnically cleansing the Bosnians, the military action was performed using Apache helicopter gunships. Helicopters named after a people that had been ethnically cleansed
in the United States less than one hundred years previously. Sixteen lane highways across the sacred burial grounds. Yee-hah. — Craig Ferguson

The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better. — Bilal Philips

Even when I was a very young man,
I was looking for the purpose of life;
I was looking for happiness all over the world;
In fame and in glamour,
in wealth and in splendor,
not knowing how foolish it was.
Happiness is not out there.
Happiness is not in wealth or splendor.
Happiness is inside me,
in my mind,
in my thoughts,
It is in my perception of the world. — Debasish Mridha

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, ... that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us. — Lord Byron

There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. ... To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me. — Edward Abbey

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

She remembered her first impression of him, tall, roughly handsome, and dangerous, like poison dressed up in an attractive bottle. It — Stephanie Garber

When you are like the tree, there is oneness with the Earth, Sun and Moon, but still steadfast in your purpose. — Michelle Cruz-Rosado

I don't want to be anywhere else, with anyone else. I don't want to be anyone else. I just want this, which is what I have. — David Levithan

He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted. — Adriana Trigiani

My mom obviously had a problem. — Dave Pelzer