Jihane Faress Quotes & Sayings

The person that I had been existed no longer. If I had been able to conjure him up and speak to him he would not have listened to me and, if he had, would not have understood what I said. He was like someone whom I had known once, but he was no part of me. — Sadegh Hedayat

I create for each individual woman to reflect her definite sense of personal style and unique beauty — Jae Hee

Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved. — Melinda Gates

Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy. — Frederick Lenz

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity. — Marty Rubin

The desert breeds reserve. It is so big that one's own plans and projects seem too little to be talked about. Also, there is so much time to say anything that one continually puts it off and ends by never saying it at all. — Rosita Forbes

we live in a twisted world where everything, both big and small, is subject to surveillance, and where anything worth money will always be exploited. — David Lagercrantz

The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses. — George Eliot

What combats powerlessness? Power. — Veronica Roth

Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go. — Ernest Hemingway,

Yes, I pray that my pain might be removed, that it might cease; but more so, I pray for the strength to bear it, the grace to benefit from it, and the devotion to offer it up to God as a sacrifice of praise. — Joni Eareckson Tada

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist. — Asne Seierstad