Jawwad Ismail Quotes & Sayings

I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination. [..] Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee. — Jimmy Carter

[T]he time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right — Harper Lee

Without a passion to disciple believers to Christlikeness through the ministries of the church, the church will focus merely on perpetuating its programs, and the sheep will grow sickly and unfruitful. — Jim Berg

The only secure knowledge is that I exist. — Rene Descartes

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years ... I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside. — Rick Bragg

MISS LOVEJOY WASN'T impressed by my story. She — Jacqueline Wilson

Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human? — Clarice Lispector

God will NEVER give YOU something SOMEBODY ELSE is supposed to have — Tyrese Gibson

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. — Mitchell Baker

Indeed, life is full of tests. You don't know what they are, so you must treat everything in life with the same care you would bring to a test on which your future rests. I realize that the most important test of all, in my quest, and in every bird's quest, is the test to be the master of fate. — Nancy Yi Fan

Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear? — Hanif Kureishi

It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan