Mowaffak Quotes & Sayings

Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose. — Ronald Frame

To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness! — Jose Rizal

Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity. — Don DeLillo

Iraq's government is at a stalemate. — Mowaffak Al-Rubaie

I recognize the vestiges of an old flame — Virgil

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches. — James Dyson

A system devolving power to the regions is the route to a viable Iraq. — Mowaffak Al-Rubaie

She sat up, cheeks flushed and golden hair tousled. She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache. I always wished desperately that I could paint her in these moments and immortalize that look in her eyes. There was a softness in them that I rarely saw at other times, a total and complete vulnerability in someone who was normally so guarded and analytical in the rest of her life. But although I was a decent painter, capturing her on canvas was beyond my skill.
She collected her brown blouse and buttoned it up, hiding the brightness of turquoise lace with the conservative attire she liked to armor herself in. She'd done an overhaul of her bras in the last month, and though I was always sad to see them disappear, it made me happy to know they were there, those secret spots of color in her life. — Richelle Mead

And there was somewhere inside me the thought: By Jove! this is the deuce of an adventure - something you read about; and it is my first voyage as second mate - and I am only twenty - and here I am lasting it out as well as any of these men, and keeping my chaps up to the mark. I was pleased. I would not have given up the experience for worlds. I had moments of exultation. Whenever the old dismantled craft pitched heavily with her counter high in the air, she seemed to me to throw up, like an appeal, like a defiance, like a cry to the clouds without mercy, the words written on her stern: Judea, London. Do or Die. O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattle-trap carting around the world a lot of coal for a freight - to me she was the endeavor, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret - as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her. — Joseph Conrad

Failure is ... the highway to success. — Og Mandino

It's true. I ... I wanted to be born in the year of the cat ... ! — Natsuki Takaya

Spain is not a racist country. — Juan Antonio Samaranch

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. — Steven Cojocaru

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me! — Miles Davis

Thea sagged back against the seat. She was still confused and unhappy, but what scared her most was that she felt a strong urge to keep talking to Eric about it. He seemed to understand so well ... better than anybody else ever had. And not only to understand, but to care. — L.J.Smith