Quraishi Shama Quotes & Sayings

A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies. — Auliq Ice

I said: How can such an ocean be contained in a jar? He replied: "How can you even grasp the understanding of the how and the means of this? Who can come to realize the mastery of the work that has no like?!... Inside the limited, He lays the world of infinity. — Jalaluddin Rumi

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind. — Robert Jay Lifton

A woman betrayed is deadlier than a man's terror's; A woman honored is gentler than a man's expectations. — Mark Donnelly

Who is Malala? I am Malala and this is my story. — Malala Yousafzai

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. — Robert Louis Stevenson

And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what a fun-loving guy Dad was, and how brooding and unhappy Mom was. The children sort of blame it all on the mother. Well, this is kind of standard and typical, and aggrieved Eleanor Roosevelt that she was not a happier mother. She wanted to be a happier mother. And I must say, she was a happier grandmother. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served. — Tony Curtis

Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart; so articulate, such an amazing speaker; such a passionate man. He's humble. — Marlon Wayans

My parents were really nice to me. — Bryan Callen

There is no normal. There is not an invisible bar you must meet to be acceptable to society. — Heidi Cullinan

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted."
Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me. — Edith Wharton

A Lament
O world! O life! O time!
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling at that where I had stood before;
When will return the glory of your prime?
No more
Oh, never more!
Out of the day and night
A joy has taken flight;
Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,
Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight
No more
Oh, never more! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

God's eyes are on me. His face is not against me. And even if others appear to be against me, I must make sure in my reaction to them that I extend grace and honor God. — Lysa TerKeurst

I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know. — Don Rickles