Madani Quotes & Sayings

His lips are on mine, hard and warm and pressing. The touch is electrifying, but not like I'm used to. This isn't a spark of destruction, but a spark of life. As much as I want to pull away, I just can't do it. Cal is a cliff and I throw myself over the edge, not bothering to think of what it could do to us both. One day he'll realize I'm his enemy, and all this will be a far-gone memory. But not yet. — Victoria Aveyard

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe. — Adrienne Rich

On sorrow floats laughter. — Gunter Grass

If stupidity is the only sin, who is blameless? — Marty Rubin

We all must be mindful that the United States has diplomatic, civilian, and military personnel deployed in other countries with both challenging security environments and active terrorist networks interested in targeting not just our facilities but our people. One of their greatest protections - knowing that the United States does not negotiate with terrorists - has been compromised. — John Boehner

Was it weird having a witch grandma? Scary? Was she always, like, threatening to cast spells if you were bad?"
"Most of the time she just threatened to send me to my room."
"That doesn't sound so scary to me."
"That's because you haven't met her. — Richelle Mead

Botox? I think it's fantastic and also horrible. — Courteney Cox

The way the money was spent ensured that Spain's newfound wealth provided the entire continent with a monetary stimulus. — Niall Ferguson

Clear your throat and open your eyes. You are on stage. The lights are on. It's only natural if you're sweating, because this isn't make-believe. This is theater for keeps. Yes, it is a massive stage, and there are millions of others on stage with you. Yes, you can try to shake the fright by blending in. But it won't work. You have the Creator God's full attention, as much attention as He ever gave Napoleon. Or Churchill. Or even Moses. Or billions of others who lived and died unknown. Or a grain of sand. Or one spike on one snowflake. You are spoken. You are seen. It is your turn to participate in creation. Like a kindergartener shoved out from behind the curtain during his first play, you might not know which scene you are in or what comes next, but God is far less patronizing than we are. You are His art, and He has no trouble stooping. You can even ask Him for your lines. — N.D. Wilson

Each poem is a skiff
headed for the other shore. — Rachida Madani

the capital commandments of self-interest, self-importance, self-enrichment, and self-perpetuation. — Mark Leibovich

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males. — Sharon Gless

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes. — Dan Futterman

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow. — Phil Donahue

Love at first sight might be fiction, but most fiction has a grain of truth in it, right? — Pauline Creeden

When men die of disease they are said to die from
natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do)
the doctor gets the credit of curing them. — George Bernard Shaw