Jahiliah Dan Quotes & Sayings

The process of fostering the growth of another living being - either plant or human - is a delight for the soul. — Catherine Carrigan

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun. — Mia Hamm

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive. — Nicole Kidman

Perhaps it's human nature: We want to shield our children from pain, and what we get instead is life and heartache and lessons that bring us to our knees. Sooner or later we are handed the brute, necessary curriculum of surrender, we have no choice, then but to bow our heads and learn. We struggle to accept that our children's destinies are not ours to write, their battles not ours to fight, their bruises not ours to bear, nor their victories ours to take credit for. We learn humility and how to ask for help. We learn to let go even when every fiber of our being yearns to hold on even tighter. — Katrina Kenison

My take on the indigent is that some are there because of temporary setbacks, some by default, and some for lack of an alternative. Some are needy, some are off their meds, some have opted out, some have been ousted from facilities where they might be better served. Many are there for life and not always by personal choice. Alcoholic, addicted, aimless, illiterate, unmotivated, unskilled, or otherwise unable to prosper, they sink to the bottom, and if they're down for any length of time, they lose the capacity to climb back out of the hole into which they've fallen. If there's a remedy, I don't know what it is. From what I've seen of the problem, most solutions perpetuate the status quo. — Sue Grafton

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends. — C.S. Lewis

They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

In the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth, self-contained communes based on a philosophy of communal sharing sprang up throughout the United States. All of them collapsed from internal tensions, the ones guided by socialist ideology after a median of two years, the ones guided by religious ideology after a median of twenty years. — Steven Pinker

We just kept hanging in and fighting. — Troy Brown

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars — T.E. Lawrence

What does the future look like? ... Jude said it looked like an open road just after a rainstorm. — Alexandra Bracken

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing. — Amanda Seyfried