Safiyah Sohail Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to wait until you get to the top of a mountain, to enjoy the view. — Eleanor Brownn

he made me an option instead of a priority. — Sapphire James

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y — H.L. Mencken

We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy. — Hanya Yanagihara

These are human beings with real lives and the uncertainty and the fear that any of them face right now could be ended at a stroke if we had all the candidates for prime minister simply say that the right to remain here is not in question and I call again upon Theresa May and on the current prime minster to do that. That would be the humane thing to do and I even at this stage hope that that's a direction they will take. — Nicola Sturgeon

For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. — Paul The Apostle

The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! — Henry David Thoreau

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting. — Chris Hemsworth

A fool's tongue," Bruce Waltke wryly notes, "is long enough to cut his own throat."4 — John Piper

London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you. — Robert Smythe Hichens

Being a seeker of truth means refusing to make assumptions about things that you do not know. — Sadghuru

I want my kids to head out the door full of peace, not the echoes of my frustrations. — Lysa TerKeurst

Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words. — Ben Jonson