Mahometana Quotes & Sayings

In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations — Wasif Ali Wasif

Reading, Writing, and Enjoying A Creative Life. — Chrystal Dorsey

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God. — Prem Rawat

Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation. — Hans Rookmaaker

There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to them as we can. If we really did attempt to return to them, we would find Moses as well as Christ, Calvin, and his legions of intellectual heirs. And we would find a recurrent, passionate, insistence on bounty or liberality, mercy and liberality, on being kind and liberal, liberal and bountiful, and enjoying the great blessings God has promised to liberality to the poor. — Marilynne Robinson

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker. — Mohsin Hamid

Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously — Clint Eastwood

Jus hold me a little longer, Jack. Tell me again that ya wanna be with me, fer real, cross yer heart 'n' let me know you ain't foolin', cause I dunno how or when it happen but somehow I come ta need ya like air, like blood. Touch me again like ya do with them gentle hands make me feel like somethin' precious. Say it again that ya love me, cause hearin' that was like openin' up some big bottomless well that ran dry years back and it cain't never be full enough now, I cain't never hear it enough, but once more, one more time and maybe I'll believe it a little more, and then a little more the next time, till someday I believe it fer true enough ta be able to say it back ta you like y'oughta hear it said cause God knows I love you more'n my own life, more'n anythin' in this world, but it cain't get outta me yet cause I still ain't the man I need ta be, the man who's gonna stand before you and declare. — Jane Seville

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy. — Norman Reilly Raine

I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm alright. — Kate Moss

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there. — Hillary Clinton

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs. — Lois Lowry

If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers. — Jay Leno

I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me. — Moon Unit Zappa