Isra Mi'raj Quotes & Sayings

As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep. — Jim Crace

Who you were," Lyre corrected, wiping his hand across the trickling blood on his face, smearing it over one cheek. "But it doesn't matter. You're still female." Natania's eyes narrowed, then she threw her head back and loosed a chiming peal of laughter. "You think you can defeat me with aphrodesia?" Lyre's eyes darkened to black. "I already have." Natania took a quick step back, her hand clenching around the Sahar as power leaped into her. Lyre's hand snapped down the front of his shirt where he kept his chain of spelled gems. He yanked it out, blood-coated fingers already clenched around a gem. Gold light flashed. The world went black. — Annette Marie

How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins? — Nicola Yoon

I might have starved to death. I would be mud-slick, stuffed to the guts with cold and hopelessness, and my body might know it was doomed and give up on its own. That would be better than idly winding wool on a snowy day, waiting for someone to kill me. — Hannah Kent

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me. — Haley Joel Osment

A $100,000,000 venture capital fund was set up solely for products using a specific computer language. — Cay S. Horstmann

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on. — Robert Herjavec

Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid. — Rita Rudner

Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was ... frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to ... let it go. — Pharrell Williams

For years, we had stood on opposite sides of a divide, calling across because we could never jump the distance. This was the moment we discovered that, if we both shifted our weight forward, if we abandoned our fear of the drop below, not looking down, we could touch the tips of our fingers together. And though it wasn't much, in that moment, it was enough. — Stephanie Oakes