Meshal Obama Quotes & Sayings

A fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow

Another plague year would reconcile all these differences; a close conversing with death, or with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us, and bring us to see with differing eyes than those which we looked on things with before. — Daniel Defoe

Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. — Alexandra Monir

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith. — Glen Duncan

Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence. — Doug Dillon

It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion. — Henry Ward Beecher

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian. — Moby

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible; and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong. — Alice Hoffman

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine. — J.G. Holland

A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom. — Cyril Connolly

And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics. — Utada Hikaru