Tawfiq Zayyad Quotes & Sayings

If Everything's a Rush, Nothing Is — Miles Anthony Smith

The pig was so earnest. So sincere. So very "there." The pig brought gravity and mythic import to this well-worn fairy tale. — Robert Fulghum

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival. — Lucy Powell

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town. — James Bay

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval. — Khaled Hosseini

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades. — Amber Heard

When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young. — Simone Bittencourt De Oliveira

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. — Henri Frederic Amiel

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life. — Charles Dickens

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. — Jean De La Bruyere

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a divided people to the united congregation of Jewish power at a difficult time in the nation's history. This argument alone is so persuasive as to warrant the discarding of democracy in favor of anything that would ensure our unity
or life itself. For disunity means death. — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

But it was His wish that certain selected men should be with Him at all times and in all places, -- His travelling companions in all His wanderings, witnessing all His work, and ministering to His daily needs. And so, in the quaint words of Mark, "Jesus calleth unto Him whom He would, and they came unto Him, and He made twelve, that they should be with Him. — A.B. Bruce

I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it. — Lewis Black

I think everybody in this world should be loved. — Lee Taemin