Manoocher Amirsoltani Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith. — Joyce Meyer

What you can see is not always interpreted as it seems, but behind it, there's always be a hidden answer. — Bella Irmenna

Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid. — Edward Bernds

There is nothing as powerful as a made up mind. Do not give yourself another excuse to put off making up your mind. You know in your heart of hearts that once you do that you have got to act.
You owe it to the world, your family and most importantly, to yourself to live a life of no regrets. Stop worrying about what other people will think, say, or do. You only have one life. LIVE IT now. You have GREATNESS within you!! — Les Brown

WHAT is your name? WHAT is your quest? and WHAT is your favorite color? — Graham Chapman

To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life. — Jennifer Garner

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

The way other people fantasize about surprise inheritances, firts-glance love, and endless white empyreal pastures, Mitchell dreamed of an erupting supervolcano that would bury North America under a foot of hot ash. — Nathaniel Rich

One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.'
... The thrill will never be gone ... — Stevie Wonder

I had lost some of my naivete and gained strength. These women with their pointless scheming could not contain me, and I watched the volatile world of the gynaeceum with a detached eye. The Forbidden City had buried my youth, and in the monastery, I had died and come back to life. Friends, enemies and mistresses had all disappeared. I was a ghost from a lost world, still going from one season to the next and still living for one man alone. — Shan Sa

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled. — Robert Gilpin

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that's what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems. — Richard Rohr

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan. — Armando Iannucci