Ghada Samman Quotes

#1. God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.

Johnny Hunt

#2. It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

Odell Shepard

#3. Why can't you go back to playing princess?" "I never played princess." "Are you kidding?" he says. "Whenever Heather's mom took the two of you to the parade, you wore your fanciest dress, pretending to be the Winter Queen." "Exactly!" I say. "Queen, not princess. You raised me better than that.

Jay Asher

#4. I'm trying to open a Chopper shop this year.

Noah Hathaway

#5. As she walked, trying to find a hotel--any hotel--she was offered at least ten different ways of getting high, four or five ways of getting laid, and at least one way of getting even.

S. Andrew Swann

#6. Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

Patricia Cornwell

#7. Let the love remain. Let the love be in the air. Let the love conquer hearts. Let the feeling of love intoxicate me. Let the feeling of love drown me.

Girdhar Joshi

#8. I spend my night writing you love letters;The eraser
Then spend my day
Erasing each, word by word.
Your eyes are my golden compasses;
They point me toward the sea of separation!

(translated from the Arabic by Sivar Qazaz)

Ghada Samman

#9. What's gotten into you today? All evening

Dean Koontz

#10. Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body's immune system, making it more susceptible to disease and handicapping its ability to destroy cancer cells.

Michael Greger

#11. I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Rob Zombie

#12. The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes ... The liberation woman is a person who believes that she is as human as a man. The liberated woman does not insist on her freedom so as to abuse it.

Ghada Al-Samman

#13. Violence was second nature to the psychopathic and ultra-violent Stephen Moyle, who was already a seasoned street fighter, after having half his face torn off in a street fight with three other men.

Stephen Richards

#14. It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.

Ghada Al-Samman

#15. Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

Margaret Fuller

#16. The gods cared nothing for those they touched. Especially war gods.

F.T. McKinstry