Zajal Quotes & Sayings

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. — Thomas Gray

The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you. — Sunday Adelaja

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women. — Helen Keller

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life. — Chris Abani

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor. — Grace Napolitano

Maybe it's okay to no longer be the person we thought we were meant to be. Maybe it's okay to just be who we are now and accept that. — Brittainy C. Cherry

Hath your house been burnt? Hath your property been destroyed before your face? Are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to live on? Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands, and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor? If you have not, then are you not a judge of those who have. — Thomas Paine

None of that matters anymore," he proclaimed, staring straight into the camera. "My loyalty to the band, my love of music-" He shook his head and wrinkled his nose. "None of it matters, because I've ruined the only thing in my life that means more to me than life itself. I've let down the woman who holds my heart and done the one thing I promised myself I would never do--hurt her. — Eden Summers

Make sure you and your family have passports. — Timothy Snyder

The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing. — Malcolm Forbes

If you don't love Jesus-go to hell! — Kinky Friedman

For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings. — Anais Nin

Be your own limited edition. — Steven Cuoco

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes? — Jonathan Safran Foer