Abdulmalik Jibril Quotes

#1. Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#2. You think when gym teachers were younger, they're thinking, "You know, I want to teach ... but I don't want to read. How about kickball for 40 years?"

Jim Gaffigan

#3. Strange stared thoughtfully at her for several seconds, so that Arabella mistakenly supposed he must be considering what she had just said. But when he spoke it was only to say in a tone of gentle reproof, "My love, you are standing on my papers." He took her arm and moved her gently aside.

Susanna Clarke

#4. When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no common destiny. But this is a delusion which experience quickly corrects.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour.
Gabriel threw me a disapproving look. I waited for him to get my joke, but his eyes remained serious. I sighed. Much as I loved him, Gabriel could be totally lacking in any sense of humor.

Alexandra Adornetto

#6. I can see the headline now: 'murderer attempts to murder murderer.

Lemony Snicket

#7. Jogging, easy jogging is the time when you allow your mind to rest and recharge, when you give your mind a chance for that pause.

Usual Oddman

#8. Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.

Victor Manuel Rivera

#9. We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

Walter Savage Landor

#10. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

Paul Rudnick

#11. Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

Bob Geldof

#12. I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

Emily Dickinson

#13. You're so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I'll sneak away and enjoy living with the guilt.

James Dashner

#14. One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use the padlock at all, He renders such a thing unnecessary. He takes the tiger from the heart, and replaces it with the lamb.

Edward Thomson