Ragheb Alameh Quotes & Sayings

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key. — Clifton Fadiman

A good story, well told, makes you realize you were yearning for something you had no name for, something you didn't even know you wanted. — F.S. Michaels

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence? — Murad S. Shah

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy. — Randall Terry

The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you've ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ... — J.M. August

I am the way I am. We all are the way we are and I'm not sure any of us really knows why. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

May none of us contribute to the evil directly or indirectly, but may we contribute to the good that is in it. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain. — Thomas R. Insel

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. — Kahlil Gibran

What she did learn from all the books was something else, something she hadn't really been expecting, which was that the story of loneliness is much longer than the story of life. In the sense of what most people mean by living, she said. Without children or partner, without meaningful family or a home, a day can last an eternity: a life without those things is a life without a story, a life in which there is nothing - no narrative dramas - to alleviate the cruelly meticulous passing of time. — Rachel Cusk

Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.' And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about - whenever the wind blows ... — Lewis Carroll

Every girl needs a bit of whimsy to remind her that life is a game and it's all about having fun. — Candace Havens

<> I've never not eaten for a day and a half. <> Not even when you had the flu or something? — Rainbow Rowell