Fawzia Shirin Quotes & Sayings

As the bus took us north on a connection of dark farm roads and smaller highways, I started to wonder where all the cars were. How could the streets be so empty? How could people sleep when there was so much at stake, so much happening, when there were so many reasons to be awake and alive?
And I wondered how it was that I could feel both empty, like these streets, and yet so full at the same time. And those weren't the only contrasting poles inside me. I felt sad and happy. Scared and exhilarated. I felt young and old. — Dana Reinhardt

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize. — Robbie Robertson

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed. — Neil Young

hand clamps around my shoulder. "What's the hurry? You don't have anywhere to be, do you?" Ever possessive Gabriel frowns at me. "No. But you probably do." "I don't have anything scheduled — Magda Alexander

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. — Robert Lynd

On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?"
"Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore you."
"Je t'adore aussi. Call me. Bye."
"Bye. — David Cronenberg

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. — Martin Buber

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own. — Jean De La Bruyere

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If a moneyed man had a "corny mind", a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God. — John Adams

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. — Rick Moody

Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work. — Anna Quindlen