Shafiullah Quotes & Sayings

But simple people don't understand complicated ones and thrust the latter back on themselves, more ruthlessly than any others, I thought. The biggest mistake is to think that one can be rescued by so-called simple people. A person goes to them in an extremely needy condition and begs desperately to be rescued and they thrust this person even more deeply into his own despair. And how are they supposed to save the extravagant one in his extravagance, I thought. Wertheimer — Thomas Bernhard

There's nothing to give away. I get so exhausted being what people want me to be that when I'm on my own, I enjoy being nothing to no one. You have no idea how tiring it is always being someone else. — Andrea Speed

Better make it a good one. — Nicole Williams

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies. — Thucydides

In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high. — David Whyte

I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that. — Mary Frann

I am not your Father. I am but a child, like you. Afraid, like you. Fearing sometimes, as you fear. — Clive Barker

Being born-again Christian gives God the opportunity to gradually change your heart, mind, and thoughts — Sunday Adelaja

What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes. — Fatou Bensouda

Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world. — K.J. Kilton

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out. — Edward St. Aubyn

You don't always have to judge people just because they might have had it easier than you. We're all struggling in our own way. — L. H. Cosway