Mustafic Fahrudin Quotes & Sayings

What strength he once possessed had left his body and gone to a tiny girl with freckles. — Paullina Simons

In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious ... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Abel wanted a traditional marriage with a traditional wife. For a long time I wondered why he ever married a woman like my mom in the first place, as she was the opposite of that in every way. If he wanted a woman to bow to him, there were plenty of girls back in Tzaneen being raised solely for that purpose. The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage. — Trevor Noah

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. — Edward Abbey

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. — Erich Fromm

I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that. — Christoph Waltz

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail. — Jewel

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings. — Maya Angelou