Nadirah Shakoor Quotes & Sayings

We should eat less meat - all of us - and we should use less leather. I mean, that's reality. — Jochen Zeitz

He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice ... In exchange, he trusted me with his. — Suzanne Collins

I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious to you - that is, you can still hurt my feelings - but I can't stand having you around.' Who wants to be loved like that? Given a choice, I might skip the deep blood tie and settle for being liked. I wonder if wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you.' I wonder if just enjoying your kid's company isn't more important. — Lionel Shriver

The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need. — George Ade

With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we workshop we talk a lot about the deeper subject, which is what the story or novel is about. I think defining a narrative's themes can lay bare a narrative's tensions. — Edan Lepucki

If you regret the mistakes you've made and don't wish to repeat them, then your whole life has been worthwhile. — E.R. Mason

One should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high. — Heinrich Muller

We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools. — Alison Gopnik

I'm blind without my glasses. — Adam Ant

There are boys here who have to mend their shoes whatever way they can. There are boys in this class with no shoes at all. It's not their fault and it's no shame. Our Lord had no shoes. He died shoeless. Do you see Him hanging on the cross sporting shoes? Do you, boys? — Frank McCourt

Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others. — Matthew Henry

My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere. — Uday Kotak

I've had to keep defining and defending myself as a writer every single day of my adult life
constantly reminding and re-reminding my soul and the cosmos that I'm very serious about the business of creative living, and that I will never stop creating, no matter what the outcome, and no matter how deep my anxieties and insecurities may be. — Elizabeth Gilbert