Qaida Quran Quotes & Sayings

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle ... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody) — Elizabeth Peters

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway! — Claudia Lee

There are an awful lot of people out there that don't want to see Boston go away, and I'm one of them. — Tom Scholz

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath. — Quincy Jones

It is a legal requirement to carry out animal testing to ensure they are safe and effective — Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other. — Abraham De Moivre

I could have forgiven you, you know, " I say. "For trying to kill me during initiation. I probably could have."
We are both quiet for a while. I don't know why I told him that. Maybe just because it's true, and tonight, of all nights, is the time for honesty. Tonight I will be honest, and selfless, and brave. Divergent.
"I never asked you to, he says, and turns to leave. But then he stops at the door frame and says, "It's 9:24. — Veronica Roth

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger

I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of humility and respect. If it were not for the ethnographic material that had been collected by missionaries and anthropologists and so forth, much of past Native American society would no longer be accessible. What I object to is making kitsch of things that are very serious. — Michael Dorris

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere. — Sarah Addison Allen

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties. — Sarah Jessica Parker

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust. — Edmund Burke

Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson