Shaila Abdullah Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to say that I feel complete when I'm with him - because I'm complete without him - but when I'm with him I feel like a better version of myself. — Claire Contreras

How do you end a story that's not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn't there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own? — Shaila M. Abdullah

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. — Mahatma Gandhi

Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat — Lyndon B. Johnson

Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is still being read today. With the same perspicacity and with the same broad historical perspective, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have retackled this same question for our own times. Two centuries from now our great-great- ... -great grandchildren will be, similarly, reading Why Nations Fail. — George Akerlof

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68) — Karen Armstrong

Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents. — Anais Nin

The only thing I ever really care about is animals - animal causes. I don't really care about people that much, but animals I feel like they always need to be protected, — Rob Zombie