Sadequee Quotes & Sayings

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce. — Glenn Greenwald

There were half circles under her eyes and other, subtler signs that mark an acutely troubled young girl, but nonetheless no one could have missed seeing that she was first-class beauty. — J.D. Salinger

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. — Plautus

It was of grey stone, huge block set on block;but it caught the sunlight like a dolphin's back at dawn. — Robin McKinley

Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be a move for canonization? — Chris Matthews

Reading the Koran on its own terms, trying to interpret it without resorting to commentaries, is a difficult and questionable exercise because of the nature of the text-its allusive and referential style and its grammatical and logical discontinuities, as well as our lack of sure information about its origins and the circumstances of its composition. Often such a reading seems arbitrary and necessarily inconclusive.
G. R. Hawting — Ibn Warraq

Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginning of self-respect. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. — Joan Didion

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. — Victor Hugo

Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul. — Kabir

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go. — Winston Churchill