The Translator Leila Aboulela Quotes & Sayings

Hope is a rickety craft to trust one's self to. I — Fridtjof Nansen

My beloved jay, give me a name now. call out the name you give me, looking into the deepest place in your heart. Everytime you call my name, I'll fly to you and be your wings. — Ilchi Lee

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career. — Lawrence R. Klein

If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint. — Ian McKellen

The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape of 'prejudices' has a great deal of power; he is forced to learn that past reality is also a reality. — Hannah Arendt

The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance. — Ron Paul

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions. — George Henry Lewes

For in music there is no material to be deducted. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave? — Fannie Flagg

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads. — Kim Stanley Robinson