Javed Jaffrey Quotes & Sayings

I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger. — Helen Garner

She leaned forward and whispered sensuously in his ear, 'I am Lilith and you are mine now - forever. — Alan Kinross

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything. — John Hawkes

Dust was time in material form, Hubert could no longer remember who had said it, or where he had read it. At any rate, a lot of time seemed to have collected in his studio, because there was a thin, almost transparent layer of dust over everything. — Peter Stamm

We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that? — J.K. Rowling

Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by physical punishment. Shame (and praise) help the child to internalize the parent's judgment. It impresses upon the child that the parent is not only more powerful but also right. Like the Puritans, Locke (in 1690), wanted the child to adopt the parent's moral position, rather than simply bow to superior strength or social pressure. — C. Sommerville

RyanReynolds: You and Kara, huh? So that's why we've never hooked up!
BrettMesserschmidt: No. That would be because I hate you.
RyanReynolds: Oh. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

The Hanlin named his granddaughter Lustrous Jade, for jade was the fairest of stones and possessed five virtues: charity, for its lustre; rectitude, for its translucence; wisdom, for its purity of sound when struck; equity, for its sharp edges that injure none; courage, for it can be broken but not bent. — Bette Bao Lord

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret. — Ayelet Waldman

It seems that you can't make people love or care for something that they don't already love or care for. They either see your value and act accordingly or they don't and you move on to someone that does. — Carlos Salinas

You're just jealous."
"Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable. — Jennifer Estep

This is the world: the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith. — Dylan Thomas

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest. — Justin Welby

The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God. — Dallas Willard

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in. — Annie Lennox