Madawi Al Quotes & Sayings

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Good coffee is a benefit, but great coffee is a reward, and the difference between good and great is just pennies a day. — Richard Wyckoff

Kids are really cruel. — Teresa Palmer

I think that there are so many women who understand nothing about clothes and they should try and understand themselves before they start putting on disguises: they should stand in front of the mirror for a day, two days or three, and find out what they have which is beautiful, interesting: what they should show: hair, neck, arms, or hands. — Sonia Rykiel

The sale of indulgences is sometimes regarded as one of the first major waves of capitalist commodification. It certainly laid the basis for all that hoarded wealth in the Vatican. Talk about the commodification of conscience and honor! — David Harvey

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions. — Sarah Kane

The younger the fan I can have, the better. I love talking to kids. — Richard Dean Anderson

Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight! — William Carlos Williams

Like most people who live on the edge, she spoke with two accents, neither authentic. — Madawi Al-Rasheed

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. — Homer

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A lyrical and riveting testament to the strength of the human spirit, as well as the power of family and community. Ward's paragraphs are like songs, lifting us even as the authenticity of this world and these characters keeps the ground in clear sight. This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary writer. — Skip Horack

the best place to find status, identity, meaning, and happiness is in experiences, — James Wallman

Every day away from succor was another night spent outside with the corelings, and not even Arlen took that lightly, but he had a deep and driving need to see things that no other man had seen, to go places no other man had gone. He had been eleven when he ran away from home. Now he was twenty, and had seen more of the world than any but a handful of other men. — Peter V. Brett