Shawqi Nahab Quotes & Sayings

An age is the reversal of an age:
When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,
We lived like men that watch a painted stage.
What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:
It had not touched our lives. — William Butler Yeats

Words spoken in pain could be far crueler than the speaker really intended.
-Bound — Donna Jo Napoli

Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica. — James Hetfield

There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form ...
Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength ... to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword. — Adam Gidwitz

Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect. — Rod Carew

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation. — Clarence Day

They weren't scared, or dispossessed, or fragile. They were possible. — Justin Torres

Compulsion is attraction without reason. — Candice Raquel Lee

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton

For a sweeter kiss had never been bestowed upon a girl. Not in storybooks or real life.
Not in heaven or hell. — Gwen Hayes

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs. — Hesiod

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do. — Vincent Cassel

You are born with a sound; everyone is, less or more. And this sound has to be developed. I am not talking about vocal technique; I am not talking about how to sing. I am talking about how to produce a sound. — Montserrat Caballe

I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do. — Walter Cronkite