Soueif First Describes Quotes & Sayings

The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history. — Amilcar Cabral

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books. — Arthur Ransome

Geniuses and lunatics, they aren't that far from one another. That is also evident on you. — Stjepan Varesevac Cobets

We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians slowly recreate their own customs as the Spirit of Christ gradually teaches them ... — Roland Allen

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person. — Eric Braeden

Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician's trickery? — Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me. — Hal Holbrook

Wrong to seal illogic with a kiss but I do it myself all the time. — Jeanette Winterson