Hadjar Abdelkader Quotes

#1. The more specific you are about your resolution, the better your chance of sticking with it. Don't just say, "I want to lose weight." Say, "When my arm jiggles, I want it to look less like a pelican's throat-pouch choking down a bass.

Colin Nissan

#2. Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

Eleanor Catton

#3. If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

Elton John

#4. As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead a Divine Life. That birth occurs in the Sacrament of Baptism. To survive, he must be nourished by Divine Life; that is done in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

Fulton J. Sheen

#5. Scars will forever show in our hearts, on our skin or in our soul, but it is up to us to show the world their true beauty

Amanda Harter

#6. Cutting edges are always a little rough ...

Rosalie Maggio

#7. My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

Albert Einstein

#8. Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

Ralph Marston

#9. I really love to run, and then right after, get some good lifting in. Then, of course, follow all that up with some healthy meals and protein.

Blake Jenner

#10. Ford put a hand to his head. "Back up. Back up!" he cried. "You're too close."
Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between us and pressed into the fridge.
"I think he meant for the ghost to back up," Jenks said dryly.

Kim Harrison

#11. Nature with her wealth of birds and flowers, Has in her heart a place for every weed; For her quick eyes require no microscope To note the varied wonders and delights That the Creator's humblest works possess.

Kobo Abe

#12. It's funny about me,' Sophia said. 'I always feel like such a nice girl whenever there's a storm.'
"'You do?' Grandmother said. 'Well, maybe ...' Nice, she thought. No. I'm certainly not nice. The best you could say of me is that I'm interested. [pp. 150-151]

Tove Jansson