Faqir Quotes & Sayings

How did I find myself here? Me - the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, hopping from one train to another, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu? — Fadia Faqir

You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste
that can be fixed
but that they don't know they have it! — Carrie Donovan

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone. — Lydia M. Child

Russians consider themselves civilized Europeans, but have to endure the humiliation of daily encounters with officials that belong in a squalid dictatorship. — Oliver Bullough

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn. — Tom Stoppard

Every animal on the planet attracts mates with the goal of reproduction. Frogs swell their bodies. Male gorillas beat their chests. Have you ever watched a male lobster rise up on the tips of his legs and snap his claws, demanding female attention? Attraction is the first element of all animal reproduction, humans included. — Becca Fitzpatrick

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it. — Rick Scott

I have this crazy collection of napkins and post-it notes I keep in a box under my desk, which I raid often and replenish constantly. — Catherine Cruzan

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. — Herbert Read

You aren't afraid of what you think you're afraid of - you're afraid of what you think. — Michael Neill

My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM. — Waris Ahluwalia

We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals. — Debbie Stabenow

Her tears were not for public consumption, she used to say. (216) — Fadia Faqir

A single slim trunk
Branches that bow in a storm
Green, leathery leaves with a soft centre
Glittering against blue sky
White bark scarred, bleeding
Heart wide-open
Bandaged, but upright she stands... (225) — Fadia Faqir

Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to me, I was maybe 9, and he said to me, 'Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off, put a blanket on you, and you're going to sleep better.' Well, as with everything, he was right ... Then the best part of it is that when you wake up, for the first 15 seconds, you have no idea where you are. You're just alive. That's all you know. And it's bliss, it's absolute bliss. — Philip Roth

I lived in my head most of the time - a lonely and messed up place - and suddenly there was a higher force called Allah I could lean on. A companion, who'd travel with me this road less trodden... My life. Islam means surrendering yourself to God. — Fadia Faqir

Here we are! Shooting stars. Shooting stars? They burn. Fleeting glimpse. We become human as we fall. — Fadia Faqir

You don't liberate a country standing on the soil of another. — Fadia Faqir

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. — Albert Camus

What is this thing that makes us human? Birth, heartbreak, a desire for safety and order? Is it anger, shame, or fear? What we desire is unattainable and although we know it, we keep striving for it. Sisyphus, the Greek god, and all that. — Fadia Faqir