Golley Slater Quotes & Sayings

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't. — Gabrielle Zevin

The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness. — T.E. Lawrence

Whoever makes sujood to Allah properly, will never make sujood to the duniya. — Suhaib Webb

I think people's perception is that when you're famous, you want people to love you. That's a big part of why people become famous, because they don't just want love, they want it on a grand scale. But once you realize - and it's not a big trick to really figure it out - that it's just completely artificial, an external pumping of the ego that's never going to really help you, then it's an easy thing to step out of it. That's probably why Harrison Ford lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. — Woody Harrelson

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken. — William Safire

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone. — Miguel De Cervantes

If you're unable to find your face in the dictionary, then take this opportunity to define yourself. — Faydra D. Fields

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to. — Zinedine Zidane

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing. — Ginny Brown-Waite

Urban planner and historian Lewis Mumford, though no Marxist, could see how the vast gulf between the promise of technological progress and its capitalist application was a glaring contradiction at the heart of the system: "Those machines whose output was so great that all men might be clothed; those new methods of agriculture and new agricultural implements which promised crops so big that all men might be fed - the very instruments that were to give the whole community the basis of a good life, turned out, for the vast majority of people who possessed neither capital nor land, to be nothing short of instruments of torture. — Paul D'Amato

The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact. — Ala Bashir

The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special. — Michael Schumacher

You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions. — Frantz Fanon