Jabra Quotes & Sayings

I was always a very good student, 3.98 GPA ... But once I found out I only had to take math and science for two years, I didn't take them junior or senior year. And I convinced my high school to give me actual credits for doing professional shows in Minneapolis ... as work-study. — Laura Osnes

The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be. — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED. — Alan Cohen

Everything was for her.
Everything else was for him. — Frank Lee

When a television show like 'Scandal' becomes the biggest show in recent history, suddenly advertisers and networks want to jump on that. And what it's showing is that people want to see diversity. — Jussie Smollett

Miss Marva's driving technique was at best creative, and at worst she was an accident waiting to happen. — Lisa Kleypas

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life. — Elisabeth Elliot

Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you renew nothing. But by setting out from it and adding to it, you renew its power, because only by addition can you prepare the future path for the living sap within it. — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater. — John Kenneth Galbraith

They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come. — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality. — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment. — Chen Guangbiao