Fatima Babar Quotes & Sayings

When you come to the king, and he asks for the beautiful princess, you must say, "Here she is!" Then he will be very joyful; and you will mount the golden horse that they are to give you, and put out your hand to take leave of them; but shake hands with the princess last. Then lift her quickly on to the horse behind you; clap your spurs to his side, and gallop away as fast as you can. — Jacob Grimm

He's going to be what?! Oh for God's sake. Sir David Beckham? You're having a laugh. He's just a good footballer with a famous bird. — Ian Holloway

I can't prove it yet know it when I seem it. — Brian Spellman

No atheists at sea, Drake. When the waves are the size of mountains even the godless kneel. — Sarah Winman

Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness - for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee - and their will Shall then overshadow thee: be still. — Edgar Allan Poe

I understood that faith could help people see beyond themselves, not into the abyss but into the street, into the mix, to offer what was best about themselves to others. — Piper Kerman

But epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can be world-changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for posterity. — Steven Johnson

Any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people. — Vince Flynn

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards. — Joy Baluch

I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences. — Lydia Davis