Nahj Al Balagha Quotes & Sayings

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna

You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had.
I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson.
"Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is. — Melissa Bank

And that other self, who watches me from the distance of decades,
what will she say? Will she look at me with hatred or with compassion,
I whose choices made her what she will be? — Jane Hirshfield

Brazil will change when its cities change. — Jaime Lerner

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain ... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk ... — Graham Sutherland

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. — John Wayne

Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were. — Larry McMurtry

Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now! — Lewis Carroll

My dream wasn't to be a princess in a castle. I wanted to be Persephone, claimed by the god of the underworld. Except that was the thing about getting captured; it wasn't up to me. I — Skye Warren

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world! — Lorraine Hansberry