Sundus Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. — Sallust

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth. — Therese De Lisieux

Besides, there was the way she beamed at me, smiling with her whole self, and how a coy gesture like tucking her hair back could make me want to follow her, help her, do anything she asked. I was hopelessly outmatched. — Ransom Riggs

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences. — Mariella Frostrup

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through. — Muddy Waters

Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology. — Barack Obama

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level. — Tom Chatfield

Katie James kept waking up. It was nothing unusual; it was just how she was. A noise here, an internal thought there, a nightmare that seemed so real she could touch it, kept hammering away. She finally rose, got some water and settled in an armchair, flicked on a reading light, and picked up the latest Lee Child thriller. — David Baldacci

Tonight, there's no one here to force myself to feel okay for, to smile or hold it together for, and I feel pretty bad. — Abigail Tarttelin

The knowledgeable gypsy eyes scanned the dairy-maid skin, the gilded hair, the long hands, jewelled to display their beauty while the Master, serenely smiling, returned the compliment under relaxed lids. — Dorothy Dunnett

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you." — Emily Post

White bridal dresses stunning and pure, bringing promises, binding two souls together, life forces connected, holding the same vision. — Jennifer Lynch