Hafid Derradji Quotes

#1. What sort of work do you do?"
Lifting her skirts with one hand, still holding the owl in the other, she started for the cottage. "Quickening. Citizens of this spacetime call it clockwork magic."
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Sharon Lynn Fisher

#2. When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

Epictetus

#3. That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar ... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?

Kamila Shamsie

#4. The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.

Pierre Bayle

#5. Readers should not be loaded with more information and guidance than a lively mind needs
puzzlement can be accepted, but insulting clarity is fatal to a poem.

William Stafford

#6. The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Abraham Maslow

#7. I think back to back romantic comedies are good for black film.

Taye Diggs

#8. It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.

Whittaker Chambers

#9. There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of looking. It is the Book of Man. You may open that book whenever and wherever you find another human voice to answer yours, and another human hand to take in your own.

Walter Besant

#10. I was in those days all about the 'fuck you'. Fuck you for not recognising how great I am. I'll do it myself.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#12. All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

Nicolas Darvas

#13. The air between us crackles like it always has, like it has its own energy or frequency. One of us is going to bend. One of us is going to break.

Lauren Blakely