Najwan Ghrayibs Birthplace Quotes & Sayings

And I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons. — Steven Herrick

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time. — Chuck Palahniuk

occurrence - yet the rarer the event, the more confident these "scientists" involved in predicting, modeling, and using PowerPoint in conferences with equations in multicolor background have become. — Anonymous

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you"; "It is easier to be critical than correct"- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors. — Kenneth W. Estes

A child dragging bent useless legs is crawling up the hill outside the village. Nose to the stones, goat dung, and muddy trickles, she pulls herself along like a broken cricket. We falter, ashamed of our strong step, and noticing this, she gazes up, clear-eyed, without resentment - it seems much worse that she is pretty. In Bengal, GS says stiffly, beggars will break their children's knees to achieve this pitiable effect for business purposes: this is his way of expressing his distress. But the child that lies here at our boots is not a beggar; she is merely a child, staring in curiosity at tall, white strangers. I long to give her something - a new life? - yet am afraid to tamper with such dignity. And so I smile as best I can, and say "Namas-te!" "Good morning!" How absurd! And her voice follows as we go away, a small clear smiling voice - "Namas-te!" - a Sanskrit word for greeting and parting that means, "I salute you". — Peter Matthiessen

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail. — Andrew Vachss

If you know it, but you're not living it, you don't own it. — T. Harv Eker

I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life. — Michael Jordan

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg

The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood. — Alice Hoffman

Watching you guys trying to be friends is like watching porn with no penetration. Really hot, but no climax. — Kennedy Ryan

The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell. — Huey Lewis

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering. — L.M. Montgomery

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen. — Mahatma Gandhi