Sultana Quotes & Sayings

Strong feelings, especially terror and desperation, leave an imprint on the air that echo back to whoever's unlucky enough to walk through that place again. — Alexandra Bracken

I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana — Jean Sasson

Only when we evolved as spirited stallions, with a strong will of our own, would we progress and leave the era of those primitives behind us. — Jean Sasson

MI FRIEND THE HOLY SPIRIT, IS THE MOST REAL PERSON — Luis Vasquez

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now. — Brian Tracy

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose. — Nusrat Sultana

His polytheistic hankerings were dramatically demonstrated in 1981 when he suffered an assassination attempt in Rome, and attributed his survival to intervention by Our Lady of Fatima: 'A maternal hand guided the bullet.' One cannot help wondering why she didn't guide it to miss him altogether. Others might think the team of surgeons who operated on him for six hours deserved at least a share of the — Richard Dawkins

The snake is captivated for now.
- Hafsa, The Valide Sultana. — P.J. Parker

And Viola is the idol, the theme of Naples. She is the spoiled sultana of the boards. To spoil her acting may be easy enough, - shall they spoil her nature? No, I think not. There, at home, she is still good and simple; and there, under the awning by the doorway, - there she still sits, divinely musing. How often, crook-trunked tree, she looks to thy green boughs; how often, like thee, in her dreams, and fancies, does she struggle for the light, - not the light of the stage-lamps. Pooh, child! be contented with the lamps, even with the rush-lights. A farthing candle is more convenient for household purposes than the stars. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film. — John Kander

Shaykha Sultana al-Zubaydiyya

Shaykha Sultana al-Zubaydiyya, famous scholar and saint, was the dauther of 'Ali al-Zubaydi, a man belonging to the martial Zubaydi clan of the tribe of Bani Haritha, itself an offshoot of the major tribe of Kinda, one of the most ancient and best known tribes of Southern Yemen.

[...] she became known as the Rabi'a of Hadramawt.

[...] Shaykha Sultana became so engrossed in her spiritual pursuits that she never found it in herself to marry and beget children as was expected of her. Instead, she visited all the great men of the valley, sitting at the back of the mosques where the gatherings were held, and listening intently until she became well known and greatly respected by them.

Mostafa al-Badawi, A blessed Valley, Volume One, Wadi Hadramawt & the Alawi Tradition, Chapter 10, S. 95-97 — Mostafa Al-Badawi

Is not just any bint," he said. "This is a philosopher-queen, a sultana ... — G. Willow Wilson

The man who marries a woman for her beauty will be deceived; he who marries a woman for good sense can truly say he is married. - Sultana — Jean Sasson

I like Sultana cookies - they are so, so, so good. I think the best in the world. — Maud Welzen

A small, light object landed on my head. I looked around. Another small something hit me. I looked up. After a third thing hit me, I untangled a couple of deer droppings from my hair. It was spotted deer poop. I must be one of the only kids on the planet to recognise the sultana-like pellets of hares and deer and the boulders left by elephant and rhino. I heard a cackle behind me and turned to receive a handful of deer pellets full in the face. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Zanpano~: What are your buddies in central Scheming?!
Mini-Enzy: SNUB I don't know...
Zanpano: *Shaking jar Violently* TALK YOU INSECT SCUM!! TALK!!
Frog man: YOU GO, ZANPANO! SHOW IT WHOSE BOSS! — Hiromu Arakawa

You are the only warmth in my heart. The only sunshine my winter has ever known. (Talon) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won. — Ronald Reagan

I love my jokes. — Dave Chappelle

Hm," said the Count, rubbing his lips and regarding Miles with cool approval. "Interesting. Well. For your fourth consoling thought, I would point out that in this venue" - a wave of his finger took in Vorbarr Sultana, and by extension Barrayar - "acquiring a reputation as a slick and dangerous man, who would kill without compunction to obtain and protect his own, is not all bad. In fact, you might even find it useful. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition ... — Mitch McConnell

If the Prophet could speak in this new age of modern amenities, I knew he would end such silly tradition. — Jean Sasson

He knows the conspirators are waiting for a sign from the Sultana to light the fuse, but she has given orders never to disturb her while she is reading, not even if the palace were about to blow up ... — Italo Calvino

I'd heard the boys at school say you needed to run after your first drink, to get the alcohol working. It got you drunk faster. I didn't bother with that. I wish drinking Brandivo, a foul, sultana-flavoured brew. I took a painful gulp of it, and watched as a possum came gripping along the wire of a telegraph pole, not knowing the death humming along beside it. Its eyes were filmed with light as it reached the safety of wood, and then it went down face first like a lizard. — Tegan Bennett Daylight

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken. — Avicii

The system loves resistance. Resistance is often creative and it feeds on creativity until the subversive becomes just another pre-packaged lifestyle on special offer. So Cease to Resist. Relax and enjoy the PandaemonAeon. Believe everything and anything. Seek not proof, but take pleasure in your choice of belief. Wipe that superior sneer of your face and try smiling (if only inwardly) at the people/institutions/beliefs that you've waged your personal war against. Wouldn't it be more fun if you didn't run around quite so hard trying to be an individual, or fighting to prove or uphold your chosen belief-system? — Phil Hine

So, Royal Princess- excuse me, Sultana Jasmine- coming to admire your soon-to-be kingdom?" he said with a smile.
"Yes, I want to make some changes. I think it could use a few more lights," she said, finger to her chin in contemplation. "Torches there, there, and there. And maybe a different shade of white this time. More 'eggshell' or 'moon.' Less 'sand.'"
"Definitely less sand," Aladdin agreed. — Liz Braswell

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity. — William Zinsser