Yousef Al Quotes & Sayings

Levi was a black-and-white photograph in the dark. All pale skin, gray eyes, streaky hair ... — Rainbow Rowell

Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence, is forever out of place. — Nehemiah Adams

He didn't tell Newt all he knew. He didn't tell him that even when life seemed easy, it kept on getting harder. — Larry McMurtry

Those dogs of the hajj go to Mecca to pray when they don't possess even the decency or generosity of spirit to pardon or forgive. — Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit. — Renata Adler

A book is something that young readers can experience on their own time. They decide when to turn the page. They'll put their arm right on the page so you can't turn it because they're not ready to go to the next page yet. They just want to look at it again, or they want to read the book over and over because they really enjoy setting the pace themselves. — Jan Brett

from "After the Fall"

When Kennedy dropped from the sky
To honor the poet Frost, ...
So MacLeish spoke.."Not
To mention Robert Frost. For Frost,
Of course, is another matter, as he
Always was, spoke to the throng an the one
Hatless in October, but days before
Dallas and November. — Alan W. Powers

I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?' — Joe Dante

No hell could be worse than an office job. — James Wymore

Life is too short to drink bad wine. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Neither Christ, nor his Apostles have left us a single preceptor example of Infant Baptism. This is a conceded fact. The very first Pedobaptists in history Cyprian of Carthage and his clergy, (A. D. 253,) did not plead any law of Christ, or Apostolical tradition, for infant baptism. They put the whole thing upon analogy and inference upon the necessity of infants on the one hand, and the unlimited grace of God on the other. Their own language is an implied and ab solute confession that their "opinion," as they call it, had no basis in any New Testament law or precedent. It confesses, in a word, that in advocating the baptism of literally new-born babes, they were introducing an innovation into the Church of Christ and they defend it only on the ground of necessity. — John Newton Brown

So foes persue, and cold allies
mistrust me, every one:
let me be false in others' eyes
if faithful in my own — Emily Bronte

You stop belonging to yourself," she said. "I belong to my child, my husband, my home, my work, my babysitter, my cleaning lady. The time that remains, like after-tax dollars, doesn't last longer than a two-minute sonata by Scarlatti."
"And you don't even like Scarlatti," I said. — Andre Aciman

Everyone," she continues, looking around at all of us, "has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way. — Meg Wolitzer

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater. — Carlisle Floyd

Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France. — Lance Armstrong