Nakbeh Quotes & Sayings

No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man's life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal. — Robin Hobb

Most Christians seem to have two kinds of lives, their so-called real life and their so-called religious one. Not (C. S.) Lewis. The barrier so many of us find between the visible and the invisible world was just not there for him. It had become natural for Lewis to live ordinary life in a supernatural way. — Walter Hooper

Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If I ran the whole place like it was my way or the highway, we would not be as good a company. I'm going to have mistakes - they'll be made on my watch and will embarrass me. But I'll also make sure the company learns from them so it can become a better company. — Jamie Dimon

It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way. — Isaac Marion

Exactly what do you think I might do to you in bed?" He scratched his chest consideringly, and rubbed absently at the tiny knot of scar tissue where he'd cut Jack Randall's brand from his flesh. "Well, so far, ye've clawed me, bitten me, stabbed me - more than once - and - " "I have not stabbed you!" "Ye did, too," he informed me. "Ye stabbed me in the backside wi' your nasty wee needle spikes - fifteen times! I counted - and then a dozen times or more in the leg with a rattlesnake's fang." "I was saving your bloody life!" "I didna say otherwise, did I? Ye're no going to deny ye enjoyed it, though, are ye? — Anonymous

I'm just giving advice. — Yunosuke Yoshinaga

I've never walked the same path other people found comfortable and I'm not going to start now. — Lora Leigh

We were
existing somewhere between life and death, with neither accepting us
fully. — Susan Abulhawa

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get. — Lionel Blue

I'd be staring at you and thinking, I should ask, I should ask, I should ask; do you want to be in a stable monogamous relationship for the rest of your life? — Sachin Kundalkar

Arab society revolves around the extended family.
No one had "no family." But Palestinians, who became scattered and
dispossessed following the Nakbe, proved so many exceptions to Arab
society. — Susan Abulhawa