Fattah Amin Quotes & Sayings

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Tonight was awful. It was the combination of everything. Of the play "Goodbye My Fancy," of wanting, in a juvenile way, to be, like the heroine, a reporter in the trenches, to be loved by a man who admired me, who understood me as much as I understood myself. — Sylvia Plath

1. Write like you'll live forever - fear is a bad editor.
2. Write like you'll croak today - death is the best editor.
3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake.
4. Pick one - fame or delight.
5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket.
6. Cunning and excess are your friends.
7. TV and liquor are your enemies.
8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m.
9. You're done when the crows sing. — Ron Dakron

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation, — Jens Stoltenberg

Give me one last time," he begged. "Please, please. I beg you." "I - " She stopped and started again. "I'm afraid, Gabriel. You'll break my heart." "Mine is already broken. — Eloisa James

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. — Wole Soyinka

We're not going to have peace - permanent peace - until the Prince of Peace comes. And He is coming. — Billy Graham

How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive. — George Eliot

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient. — Warren Buffett

What do we got on the chopping block? And by the way, I'm smarter than you. My IQ is off the charts, man. If the chart only reached fifty, then yeah. No need to tax his poor brain with numbers, though. — Gena Showalter

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things. — Christopher Lee

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen. — Rony Abovitz

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. — Henry Van Dyke