Zeyad Ahmed Quotes & Sayings

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life. — Aldous Huxley

Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be failure but of succeeding at things that don't really matter. — Francis Chan

Gods and demons, being creatures outside of time, don't move in it like bubbles in the stream. Everything happens at the same time for them. This should mean that they know everything that is going to happen because, in a sense, it already has. The reason they don't is that reality is a big place with a lot of interesting things going on, and keeping track of all of them is like trying to use a very big video recorder with no freeze button or tape counter. It's usually easier just to wait and see. — Anonymous

An author I know once explained why writing became so much more difficult in the twenty-first century: "The biggest problem in my life," he said, "is that my work machine is also my pornography delivery machine. — Chuck Klosterman

You're an interesting man, sergeant. You make enemies like a craftsman. — Terry Pratchett

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. — David Petraeus

A schlemihl is a schlemihl. What can you "make" out of one? What can one make out of himself? You reach a point, and Profane knew he had reached it, where you know how much you can and cannot do. But every now and again he got attacks of acute optimism. — Thomas Pynchon

I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters. — Joanna Lumley

or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." He did not mean, of course, that religion turns all good people bad, but merely some of them, — Jerry A. Coyne

I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places. — Mandy Moore

All the way to hell. In a fancy paper hat. — Dan Abnett

Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals. — Marvin Sapp

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone. — W.S. Gilbert

Love, I find, is like singing. — Zora Neale Hurston

But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me, And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus — Alfred Lord Tennyson