Mutaffifeen Quotes & Sayings

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow. — Ron Paul

You say wicked like it's a bad thing. — Deborah Blake

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic. — William Perry

F.D.R. had an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions in 1933 when he drove 15 major bills through the Congress, and super majorities in the House and the Senate in 1935 when he won passage of Social Security. — Robert Dallek

The way I work: I pick a country. I learn the political history - I mean I really learn it; I read until it sinks in. Once I read the political history, I can project and find the clandestine history. And then I people it with the characters. — Alan Furst

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I read a story years ago that claimed to be about the most insignificant person ever born. His mother wrote his name on the birth certificate as Nosmo King. Somebody asked the mother where she got a name like that. It turned out the mother was illiterate, so she just copied down the No Smoking sign in the room and wrote it "Nosmo King." There is the ultimate nothing person, named after a No Smoking sign. If you speak the hard gospel of Jesus Christ, you may be pegged as one of the Nosmo Kings of the world: a loser, a nobody. Verse 28 of 1 Corinthians 1 says God has chosen things that are "despised," exoutheneo, considered nothing. Christians are about as low as you can go. We are "the things which are not," literally "the nonexistent ones." It's human nature to want to be somebody. So the Lord decided to do it a different way, choosing as His messengers the impotent, nonintellectual nobodies whom the world considers nothing by its standards. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others. — Antonio Tabucchi

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer. — Kate Reardon

The village was shutting its eyes. Candles and lamps were being put out everywhere: she could inwardly behold the extinguisher and the extended hand. — Thomas Hardy