Sabahattin Nkibar Quotes & Sayings

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something. — Richard Dawkins

The pig had been killed because spirits, like people, cannot resist the smell of cooking pig. — Peter Matthiessen

They also live
Who swerve and vanish in the river. — Archibald MacLeish

What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination. — Orhan Pamuk

Meaninglessness woos us into spending our one shot at life on insignificant and trivial things. If we are not vigilant, we drift from God's glorious ambition for our lives, losing sight of anything remotely grand, trading God-instilled passion for an easier and more often traveled road. And if our hearts aren't awakened by majesty, our lives soon shrink into little bits of nothingness. — Louie Giglio

Lord, remind us that it is not always agitated uprisings and nonstop activity which lead to justice, but that change often comes through the quietcommitment of a small group of people. Help us raise our small body of people to set about quietly becoming the change we want to see in the world. Amen. — Shane Claiborne

carpe diem." "What?" "It's Latin," I said. "It means, complain in daylight. — Jeff Lindsay

Because wrapped up in conceit the size of Jerar was my Darren. Somewhere. Deep, deep down. And that part I loved. With every bit of my being.
I just vehemently hated the rest. — Rachel E. Carter

If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel. — Kevin Spacey

For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well- received. — John Legend

Then thre is Brian. It's been a slow-grow love with its roots in our friendship. We disagree about everything that's not important, like politics and religion, but agree on everything that is important, like where the dustpan and brush should live, and his sons' girlfriends. — Kate Kerrigan

No crime has been without a precedent. — Seneca The Younger

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme. — J.G. Ballard

A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and ... play. — Emmy Rossum