Gholam Shakuri Quotes & Sayings

For what benefit is beauty, the greatest blessing of heaven, if it be mixed with affectation? What youth, if corrupted with the severity of old age? Lastly, — Erasmus

Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by those of others. Although each of us is unique, there are familiar responses and doubts and joys that let us know we have kin. We are not, after all, too strange to live. — Rosalie Maggio

I believe that life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive. — Nicki Minaj

Did you talk to Terry Wilcox?"
"Yes."
"How'd that go?"
I had lifted my hand up to shield my eyes from the sun so I could look at him. During my questioning, Lee was looking beyond me to the alley and into the backyards of my neighbors. When he answered, his eyes shifted to me.
"I gave him your excuses for missing dinner on Wednesday."
"What were those?"
"You'd be with me and I'd be fucking your brains out."
My vagina went into spasm and my knees went week.
"How'd he take that?" I asked, trying to pretend I wasn't about to collapse.
"He wasn't pleased. — Kristen Ashley

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Silence doesn't mean he or she doesn't know the answer. Just in time, you will know what his or her response. — Shim Steward

I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before ... The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials — Paco Rabanne

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times. — Franz Marc

You either bend, or you break.
Suppress your ego to stay happy. — Manoj Arora

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. — Beverly Cleary

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer. — Mo Yan