Chehel Kahf Quotes

#1. An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

Dorothy Wordsworth

#2. I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity, because I know from long experience that test scores, though useful, are a very limited measure of things that matter in choosing students.

Derek Bok

#3. I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men do.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#4. I think "God" is an off-putting word. I don't think there's a name for this. I think it's a presence that is best for us, but unfortunately, it can't intervene if we don't ask it, and religion has us talking to the wall because the god that religion is selling isn't the reality.

Sinead O'Connor

#5. Doesn't he know there will always be someone out there who wants to destroy good?

Demitria Lunetta

#6. Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there is no room for interpretation; you either take all of it or none. There is no selective belief

Stephen Colbert

#7. All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.

Rumi

#8. I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

Alan Furst

#9. I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

Susan Orlean

#10. Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.

Anne Lamott

#12. you can't unchoose anyone's choices, least of all your own. All you can do with your past is try to grow out of it. Darren

Kevin Hearne

#13. That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.

Walter Moers

#14. A lot of nasty things grow out of love if it isn't ... tended right. Jealousy, hate, resentment, suspicion.

J.D. Robb

#15. Alexandra, I can handle my own fucking cock."

Stitch that on a pillow.

Kate Meader