Newsha Ajami Quotes & Sayings

I am a bird of God's garden
and I do not belong to this dusty world
For a day or two they have put me here
in this cage of my own body
I did not come here of my own
I will not return of my own
to my own country. — Rumi

It's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune. — Bernard Malamud

Those who can sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen, the actual feeling of Zen, the marrow of Zen. — Shunryu Suzuki

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living. — Francis Crick

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Jesus was a pacifist. — Chris Hedges

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies. — Orson Scott Card

I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long. — Barack Obama

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects. — Sonia Sotomayor

When one is seized with a passion to understand one's self, one has to leave behind all normal life and habitual modes of thought. — R.K. Narayan

Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser. — Diane Ackerman