Intisar Quotes & Sayings

Librarians wield unfathomable power. With a flip of the wrist they can hide your dissertation behind piles of old Field and Stream magazines. They can find data for your term paper that you never knew existed. They may even point you toward new and appropriate subject headings. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. Librarians are all-knowing and all-seeing. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. They preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule... — Erica Olsen

Their laughter hides their loss, their smiles hide their grief, their eyes hide a pain that will not be eased. — Intisar Khanani

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope. — David Steindl-Rast

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage. — Marlon Brando

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives. — Chesley Sullenberger

I would have done anything for Intisar. Her love was like three kebab meals to me, with tahini and hot peppers. I never took her for granted. Never. — G. Willow Wilson

We all need our quiet, I think. We all have our unspoken wishes, hopes we cannot mention, choices we may yet regret. — Intisar Khanani

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. — Heinrich Heine

I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon. — Sam Altman

When you have chosen a path, you must walk it with courage. — Intisar Khanani

While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we're in fact not loving people as much as we're using them to fulfill our need to belong, be liked, and be desired. This explains why some friends and family members can be so demanding, smothering, and needy. It also explains why we're so easily inflated by praise and deflated by criticism. It's as if others have the ability to determine our identity for that day based on a word or even a glance — Mark Driscoll

Dogs live in the moment, and don't have a concept of past or future. That's why you must immediately correct your dog if it breaks the rules. The old trick of rubbing your puppy's face in his poop or urine is not effective - your dog will have no idea why it is being punished. — Tom Ester

People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended. — Ron Garan

But if you wake up and are feeling....needy... — Terry Spear

Should I run so far that I reach the sea, I should not have run far enough, for the thing I run from rides on my back and in my blood and will not be shaken. — Intisar Khanani

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep. — Rich Mullins

If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but a blurred image; an image composed of thousands of tiny dots of paint. Stand back from the canvas and all those points of color merge to form an image of beauty recognizable to the human heart. Life is composed of thousands of tiny moments of time. Stand back and you will see a life of beauty, capable of touching the human heart. — Pen

Absolutely. Justice served with a side of pineapple. That's what I'm here for. — Intisar Khanani

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. — Oscar Wilde

It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe. — Intisar Khanani