Marwa Quotes & Sayings

Amarra used to read books about battles. Great heroic battles. Swords and shields and knights and honor. Battles like that don't happen anymore, yet I feel like I am caught in one. Once I may have hoped to fight for my life with all those things: swords and shields and knights and honor. But I don't have a sword. My shield is broken. I don't know what is and isn't honorable anymore. And now I've sent my knight away. — Sangu Mandanna

It's everything and nothing ... It's like the absent moment between night and day. — Sophie Hardcastle

Isn't it the unexpected that teaches us the most? — Marwa Ayad

Success doesn't come to yo, YOU GO TO IT. — Marwa Collins

I don't write for a living. I live to write. — Marwa Ayad

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true. — Christina Hoff Sommers

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else. — August Wilson

Someone once told me that human beings have three dimensions: how you see yourself, how others see you, and how you want others to see you. The closer the distance between the three dimensions, the more at peace you are and the more stable you become. — Marwa Rakha

In passing around the holy aged house (Kaa'bah), and crossing the Safa and Marwa lanes, in prayer inside the Ka'bah, in bowing and prostration, Kuwait was a prayer throbbed in my heart and uttered by my tongue.. Praying for God to protect us from the evils of ourselves and our bad deeds, Praying for God to keep blessing the people of Kuwait with the grace of unity, not to be torn by a difference, and the grace of love not to be destroyed by disputes, and the grace of progress not to be hampered by prejudices. — Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the "simple" things in life. Don't try to understand me; you won't figure me out. But you're free to like me the way I am. — Marwa Ayad

The accomplishment of your dreams will demand big sacrifice and hard work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are ... — Dean Koontz

I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a mate. If the guy does not have these five major things - then she should not give the guy a chance as she's wasting her time. The rest is up to the magic and wiggle room the universe gives. — Patti Stanger

How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart ... how it lifts us up and brings us down ... the wonder of life. — Marwa Ayad