Famous Massad Ayoob Quotes & Sayings

Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor. — Lucy Lawless

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them ... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it. — Barack Obama

He wouldn't charm her. She'd almost forgot what his kiss tasted like., felt like. She only remembered it when she drifted into dreams. Then it became so vivid, so real. To her mortification, she always felt a little thrill. Her life had been filled with gentlemen of the finest quality. James Sterling was like none of them, he was unpolished. A diamond in the rough. A scoundrel. A pirate. — Jade Parker

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away. — Rabindranath Tagore

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates. — Eli Roth

And the more they asked, the more they wondered. And the more they wondered, the more they hoped. And the more they hoped, the more the clouds of sorrow lifted, drifted, and burned away in the heat of a brightening sky. — Kelly Barnhill

I actually had to get two fillings. Yeah, I swear. My teeth had been bugging me because I had been eating so much junk food on the road. I was the worst on teh team because I always had a bag of candy with me. I never had any cavities before, but yesterday, I took two for the team. — Tisha Venturini

People do things for love and belief and passion, not just because they're paid to do it. — Herbert

Frank was a great seamstress. — Nicole Castle

Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time. — Paul Weyrich

The true reason why faith is given such an exclusive place by the New Testament, so far as the attainment of salvation is concerned, over against love and over against everything else in man ... is that faith means receiving something, not doing something or even being something. To say, therefore, that our faith saves us means that we do not save ourselves even in slightest measure, but that God saves us. — J. Gresham Machen

Personally, I don't find swearing offensive. I do find, backstabbing, lying, being a judgmental asshole, cheating and fucking people over offensive, but not swearing. — Brooke Hampton

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter. — Sylvester Stallone

Don't get old, if you can avoid it. — Billy Graham