Shadi Ghadirian Quotes & Sayings

That's what makes most places utterly impossible - the people. They're so completely hateful. They want everybody to conform to their beastly narrow little way of looking at things. And if one happens not to, one's treated as something unspeakable. And then there's nothing for it but to leave at once. — Christopher Isherwood

I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me. — Solomon Burke

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees. — Michio Kaku

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. — Charlotte Bronte

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ? — Horace

Can go downstairs right now and let my mom know how I'm feeling - if she's even home - but she'll tell me to help myself to the Advil in her purse and that I need to relax and stop getting myself worked up, because in this house there's no such thing as being sick unless you can measure it with a thermometer under the tongue. Things fall into categories of black and white - bad mood, bad temper, loses control, feels sad, feels blue. — Jennifer Niven

But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I remember everything that happened that day becasue it has happened many times in my life. The same innocence, trust, and restlessness; the wonder, fear, and lonliness. How I lost myself.
I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found. — Amy Tan

As a minority author going against the trend, I have only one wish: Should my work fade into obscurity, let it be because my talents are found lacking. — Yi Zhu

Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point. — Criss Jami