Quraish Shihab Quotes & Sayings

Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.'
'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little. — Jean-Christophe Valtat

Women say ... that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world ... I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever. — Robertson Davies

I can't love him. I don't. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I've seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples. — Rosamund Hodge

I just don't know. Maybe I'm good, but that goddamn scale would hesitate a long time before tilting that way. — John D. MacDonald

Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts. — John Dryden

Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back. — Alison Jolly

External powers, rather than providing a helping hand, preferred to wield the carving knife. — Charles Emmerson

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. — Mikhail Botvinnik

Fuck! The things she does to me with a simple kiss. — Rene Webb

We are a blessing to each other. — Lailah Gifty Akita