Khajeh Abdullah Quotes & Sayings

You don't need your eyes to love, — R.J. Palacio

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel. — Robert Mondavi

RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics. — Leah Price

As I sat alone at my desk in the dark, I thought about suicide. Sometimes I did that, thought about suicide, though not in an active way - it was more like pulling a lucky stone out of your back pocket. It was a comforting thing to have with you, so you could rub your fingers over it, reassure yourself that it was there if you needed it. I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood and the hysterical parents and the guilt, any of it. But sometimes I liked the idea of simply not having to be here anymore, not having to deal with my life. As if death could be just an extended vacation.
But now what I thought about suicide was this: If I died tonight, everyone would believe this journal was true.
Like Amelia, Chava, and Sally, everyone would forever believe that I had written that diary. Everyone would believe they knew how I "really felt." And how dare they? — Leila Sales

The Pakistan fundraiser was thoroughly inspiring - the event was able to amass 2.3 million smiles for the school — Dave Eggers

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation. — John Lydon

I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it. — Jack Dangermond

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough. — Jane Austen

biochemistry tells us that there is no receptor for calories, that is, no way for cells to sense how many calories are coming in, only how much of each type of macronutrient. The available chemical energy will ultimately show up but there is no reason to think that there will be a direct relation between calories and weight gain or loss. Calories do count but not in a simple way. — Richard David Feinman

Undoubtedly, the most important thing to remember is your time is not your own. Yes, we live in a time when people believe that you can and you should do exactly what you want, but all time belongs to God. So make sure your time is first dedicated to getting His work accomplished. — Monica Johnson

If Facebook would be a free newspaper, nobody would buy it. — Joel Landau

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth. — Martina Boone

I know now it doesn't matter how well I say grace
if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eat — Andrea Gibson

I know that I may not always get a hit or may not always catch the ball, but I'm going to damn sure try. — Cliff Floyd