Abdul Razak Gurnah Quotes

#1. Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

Bernie Sanders

#2. I am the abandoned child, now become a man. So everything has turned out pretty well. . . A little too much importance is accorded to things I say.

Emmanuel Bove

#3. If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.

Jack Sparrow

#4. A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

Timothy Ferriss

#5. You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

Robert Musil

#6. Ma'am, I'm not tryin' to be sexy. Ah didn't have any clear idea of trying to sell sex. It's just my way of expressin' how I feel when I move around. It's all leg movement. I don't do nothin' with my body.

Elvis Presley

#7. Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

Terry Pratchett

#8. A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident and relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion and morality whenever it seems convenient

Michael Horton

#9. I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

Michael Chang

#10. Here is where they tell you, if you only believe, you, too, can live happily ever after.

Brad Barkley

#11. We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had not been too harsh; the sea would still be there at the end. She was nearly ready.

Anita Brookner

#12. The Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person. (1 Sam. 10:6)

Beth Moore

#13. People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Robert Greene

#14. To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

Susanna Clarke

#15. The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed, contemplating the sleep of a good man.

Victor Hugo