Shakour Shaalan Quotes & Sayings

It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity. — M.F. Moonzajer

What happens when you tell an egg a joke? A: — Chrissy Voeg

Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men - at least he always did when he was a kid - because they pretend that's what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives. — Russell Banks

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip. — Rick Perlstein

Every end is a beginning ... And every beginning is an end. — T. S. Eliot

There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle light in the eye of the inspired one, or some even more subtle quiet emanation which surrounds the inspired thinker, which tells you that you are in the presence of one who has bridged the gap which separates the mundane world from the world of spirit. — Walter Russell

He liked the staccato beat of the rain drumming on the roof of the carving shed. — R.J. Harlick

I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system.. — Mariah Carey

I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can't play anything. I don't know what it is. — Nate Ruess

I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a Divine interposition in our behalf ... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever. — Daniel Webster

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc] — Gautama Buddha

For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do. — Matthew J. Hefti