Istam Quotes & Sayings

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He wondered ... if the journey of a life with pain was simply finding more ad more layers of acceptance, that at best the most constant tether would be that he would never really find the bottom, that the bottom had different levels, and that no matter how good he tried to be, sometimes he would sink into a hole. — Heidi Cullinan

Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind. — Jim DeMint

Even if you lie to me ... that's okay. I'll be satisfied with as much of yourself as you can give me. — Yun Kouga

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary. — R.L. Stine

THE RIVER OF FOREVER is not the serene, clear-blue comfort that you'd hope to greet your soul after you've exhaled your last breath in the Overworld. — James Patterson

... one thing we know for sure: everybody has to be somewhere. Is it possible you are somewhere you didn't fully realize? — Van Harden

To abandon duty is to destroy that which makes any individual unique and capable of prodigious feats. — Eric Van Lustbader

I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it. — Ella Henderson

Ironically, [living in] communities of the like - minded is one of the greatest dangers of today s globalized world. And it s happening everywhere, among liberals and conservatives, agnostics and believers, the rich and the poor, East and West alike. We tend to form clusters based on similarity, and then we produce stereotypes about other clusters of people. In my opinion, one way of transcending these cultural ghettos is through the art of storytelling — Elif Shafak

Istam terra de fossam premat,
gravisque terrus impio capiti incubet!
(As for her, let her be buried deep in earth,
and heavy may the soil lie on her unholy head.) — Seneca.

I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow. — Rand Paul