Sendoff Quotes & Sayings

Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr). — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards. — Frederick Buechner

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else. — Vernon Howard

To summarise, the secret of success is to tidy in one shot, as quickly and completely as possible, and to start by discarding. — Marie Kondo

If Mr. Pound were a professor of Latin, there would be nothing left for him but suicide. I do not counsel this. But I beg him to lay aside the mask of erudition. And I the must deal with Latin I suggest he paraphrase some accurate translation. And then employ some respectable student of the language to save him from the blunders which might still be possible. — William Gardner Hale

They locked me up with a boy. A boy . Dear god. They're trying to kill me. They've done it one purpose. To torture me, to torment me, to keep me from sleeping through the night ever again. — Tahereh Mafi

The true and equitable law of humanity is the free exchange of service for service. Spoliation consists in destroying by force or by trickery the freedom of exchange, in order to receive a service without rendering one. Forcible spoliation is exercised thus: Wait till a man has produced something; then take it away from him by violence. It is solemnly condemned in the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not steal. — Frederic Bastiat

When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery. — Jane Hirshfield

And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can't begin it before that day. Before that day it means nothing, because it is nothing; It is not real; It is not true. — Andrea Dworkin

Black Poets should live
not leap
From steel bridges, like the white boys do. — Etheridge Knight

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow
the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago — Miguel Syjuco

I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a we. — Brandi Glanville

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Instead of being wakened to the sound of birdsong, like princesses in books, I was wakened to the sound of Rommel shrieking as Fat Louie beat him senseless for getting into his bowl of Fancy Feast. — Meg Cabot