Basalamah Ustadz Quotes

#1. A book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footprints.

Graham Greene

#2. I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

James Patterson

#3. There is nothing more dreadful in the world than to live in somebody else's house, eating his bread and doing nothing in return for it.

George Orwell

#4. We all make mistakes, everybody should be given a second-chance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else.

Elizabeth Strout

#6. in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story. She still did not - and yet she regarded herself in the glass a little ruefully. To have that choice removed by time and age was painful.

Kij Johnson

#7. Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

Robert Muller

#8. We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world.

Harry Shearer

#9. He was Deke.
And he was mine.

Kristen Ashley

#10. The Allegory of the Wolf Boy" ("At tennis and at tea/Upon the gentle lawn, he is not ours,/But plays us in a sad duplicity").

Oliver Sacks

#11. Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

Monica Potter

#12. Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Marvin Minsky

#13. Why would you think there was anything more between me and Mr. Pinter?
Because you blush when his name is mentioned. Because he follows you with his eyes. Because I do not know what to make of him, and that worries me.

Sabrina Jeffries

#14. All things human begin with words.

David Rains Wallace