Shafik Gabr Quotes & Sayings

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife. — Charles Caleb Colton

What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp. — Judith Ivory

The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events — Edward Gibbon

If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated. — Dada Bhagwan

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets. — Rita Mae Brown

I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar. — Richie Havens

Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air. — Will Cuppy

When people value your leadership practices, they in effect buy your leadership. They're inspired to excel and act with commitment. But when employees don't buy your leadership, they disengage, becoming noncustomers of your leadership. — Anonymous

As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other. — John Sandford

And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information. — Assata Shakur

We are important to ourselves and to those who love us. That's enough importance for anyone. — Marty Rubin

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! — Benjamin Franklin

William: What's your nickname?
Maddox: I do not have one.
William I'm happy to give you one. Captain Ass. What do you think?
Maddox: I can leave.
William: New nickname: Big Baby. Anyway, let's continue ... — Gena Showalter

[I wanted silence in the flowers, not to not say, but to not have the impulse of saying.] — Dawn Lundy Martin

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer? — Rachel Caine