Taghrid Al Quotes & Sayings

It was June in Maharashtra, and the monsoon would not come. The whole district lay panting in the heat, the burning sky clapped tight overhead like the lid of a tandoor oven. Lean goats stumbled down the narrow alleyways, udders hanging slack and dry beneath them; beggars cried for water in every village. Dust-devils swept over baked clay and through the dry weeds, whistling and shrieking. Hot sand blew into the eyes of torpid bullocks as they leaned into the yoke, whips snapping over their bony backs. A single stream crept along the valley floor, shrunken and muddy, and women stood ankle deep in its shallows, beating their laundry against rocks that rippled and danced in the sun. — Arinn Dembo

You know, Sam, it's beginning to piss me off how you figure me out. How the heck am I supposed to be intriguing and mysterious if you keep figuring me out? — Kristen Ashley

Where I will find peace other than in oblivion? — Sorin Cerin

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin? — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I think it's possible to learn. The problem is that we learn so damned slowly, so that by the time you've realized something, it's too late. — Jo Nesbo

There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection. — Frederick Lenz

That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well. — Julian Of Norwich

The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent or default - have followed different paths since 1989. We stayed mostly the same as they became hypopowers that, to take a small example, would and could do nothing should a madman in Korea wish to kill millions. — Victor Davis Hanson

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot. — Vida Dutton Scudder

We are never really beyond it ... slavery continues to this day. — Lawrence Hill

She grabbed her clutch bag and circled her arms around his neck. "Caulder McCutchen, I'm really not sure what you are."
He lifted his head and looked down at her, squinted. "I'm a man. Enough said?"
Velia smiled and looped her arm through his. "Yes, sir. Shall we go? — Mary J. McCoy-Dressel

We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time. — Helen Roseveare

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life. — Marcus Aurelius