Nabaviyyah Quotes & Sayings

Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave. — Nichelle Nichols

The inability to get something out of your head is a signal that shouts, "Don't forget to deal with this!" As long as you experience fear or pain with a memory or flashback, there is a lie attached that needs to be confronted. In each healing step, there is a truth to be gathered and a lie to discard. — Christina Enevoldsen

Kurkov loves his weltschmerz as much as the next guy
but he doesn't see why weltschmerz shouldn't come bundled up with a narrative that kicks a little bit of ass
the edge of the left cheek, say. — Nick Hornby

If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk. — Frederick Busch

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. — Edward Hirsch

Or by death. She nodded. It was the strangest feeling. I was still half asleep, but — Diana Gabaldon

She would see that in England, for reasons unknown, a woman can simultaneously be cute as a bug's ear, a serious rose gardener, and a nymphomaniac. — Nell Zink

Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life. — Viktor E. Frankl

Maybe it's the quiet," Aedan resumed. "Let's me think, or maybe it's the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I'm comfortable in those spots. — Jonathan Renshaw

If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power. — Walter Lippmann

Demmed nuisance, relations! But they make one so demmed respectable. — Oscar Wilde

As for another profession ... I suppose I'd manage a global-macro hedge fund. I love that kind of stuff. Weird, I know, but I find it fascinating. — Nicholas Sparks

A boy grows and marries and leaves. He belongs to another woman, but a girl always belongs to her mother. — Kate Atkinson