Skander Halim Quotes & Sayings

None of us ate together: my Aunt Gladys ate at five o'clock, my cousin Susan at five-thirty, me at six, and my uncle at six-thirty. There is nothing to explain this beyond the fact that my aunt is crazy. — Philip Roth

Your whole life, she says, you're searching for disaster - you're auditioning disasters - so you'll be well rehearsed when the ultimate disaster finally arrives. — Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now. — Eckhart Tolle

How is it possible to live the same story twice from different vantage points? — Veronica Roth

They are spending plenty of time and money on the road, but they never spent enough of themselves to begin with. Thus, their experience of travel has a diminished sense of value. — Rolf Potts

You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with. — Steve Nash

Maybe a love that flamed so bright could only burn us into the ground. — A.L. Jackson

Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death. — Herman Melville

My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat? — Edmund Spenser

At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis! — Walter Smith

And it wasn't just one warning. Eight years before the Panel on Climate Change's report, an assessment of global warming's impacts in New York City had also cautioned of potential flooding. "Basically pretty much everything that we projected happened," says Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the cochair of the Panel on Climate Change and coauthor of that 2001 report. — Deborah Blum

You can't hold on to all things forever, no matter how hard you grip them. — Cecelia Ahern

too," Miranda said. "I knew a girl, Becca. — C.C. Hunter

He had first been excited by Facebook, ghosts of old friends suddenly morphing to life with wives and husbands and children, and photos trailed by comments. But he began to be appalled by the air of unreality, the careful manipulation of images to create a parallel life, pictures that people had taken with Facebook in mind, placing in the background the things of which they were proud. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie