Mojib Quotes & Sayings

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. — Henry Rollins

What we are saying is that on top of the warming trend there is a long-periodic oscillation that will probably lead to a lower temperature increase than we would expect from the current trend during the next years. — Mojib Latif

Cricket fans all over the world probably have more in common with each other than with their fellow citizens. — Romesh Gunesekera

For Love surely lies heartbroken at all the tears cried in its name, the curses flung at its efforts ... there is nothing wrong with love; there is just something wrong with us. — Sinovuyo Nkonki

Winters with strong frost and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will cease to exist at our latitudes. — Mojib Latif

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally. — Christian Lous Lange

We donate time, expertise, and resources to a wide array of charitable and nonprofit organizations around the world each year through partnership initiatives that make a real difference in our communities. — Joshua Bekenstein

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac

I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion — Ziggy Marley

If only there had been a dementor around. . . . As a sobbing Wood passed Harry the Cup, as he lifted it into the air, Harry felt he could have produced the world's best Patronus. — J.K. Rowling

One time I took the swing shift just to get away from her for a few weeks, I just filled in for this guy who had a back injury, and I came home when no one was awake, and then I'd just take some sleeping pills and drink a few beers. Everyone had a good laugh. — Rick Moody

And then you see right away it may well happen that you enter a decade or maybe even two, when the temperature cools relative to the present level ... I'm definitely not one of the skeptics ... However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves, or some other people will do it. — Mojib Latif

But Sabbath is not only resistance. It is alternative. It is an alternative to the demanding, chattering, pervasive presence of advertising and its great liturgical claim of professional sports that devour all our "rest time. — Walter Brueggemann

God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.' — Kirk Douglas

I'm probably getting too familiar with him, but there's something about him that makes me feel like I would tell him anything. He asks these incredibly direct questions, things that some of my closest friends have never even thought to ask, and I'm inexplicably compelled to share all these deeply personal thoughts. He's like human Xanax or something. — Lisa Daily

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs. — Stephen Sondheim

The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom. — Patricia J. Williams