Youssef Bey Karam Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses. — Janet Frame

I want to promise you that I will never do anything to hurt Evan, and I will not come between him and his family. I love him, but I would walk away before I'd ever let anything jeopardize his happiness. — Rebecca Donovan

I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars. — Lauren Willig

The only battles we face in love are the battle to know our worth and the battle to know when our boundaries need to be protected. — Shannon L. Alder

The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human. — Donald Phillip Verene

He who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es]. — Shang Yang

Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment, — Pema Chodron

The celibate is bound to feel lonely in that atmosphere, but it is a different kind of loneliness that plagues the erotic. The former is tempted because, in the natural order, he is without a partner; the other is lonely even when he has his partner, for as St. Augustine reflected: Our hearts were made for Thee, O Lord, and they cannot rest until they rest in Thee. — Fulton J. Sheen

Most people think of death as the end, when in fact, death can be the beginning. — Gabrielle

A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing. — Karen Salmansohn

She had always worked as hard as she could, at everything she did, and she simply did not understand how anybody could do otherwise. How could they sit there, as they did, and stare into the space in front of their desks when they could be adding up figures or checking the drivers' returns? — Alexander McCall Smith

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically ... but that does not justify him in pretending ... that Christ is, in effect, Mars. — George Bernard Shaw

At one point, a girl who looked to be in her early twenties, with a Joan of Arc haircut, passed right in front of the glass. When Mitchell looked at her, the girl did an amazing thing: she looked back. She met his gaze with frank sexual meaning. Not that she "wanted" to have sex with him, necessarily. Only that she was happy to acknowledge, on this late-summer evening, that he was a man and she a woman, and if he found her attractive, that was all right with her. No American girl had ever looked at Mitchell like that.
Deanie was right: Europe was a nice spot. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention. — Gina Barreca

I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles. — Barry Zito