Hakeem Akhtar Quotes

#1. Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. Fear leaves you sweaty and shaky and insecure enough to question everything you know to be true.

Alyson Noel

#3. When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

Andre Gide

#4. Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#5. I'm not a princess
This ain't a fairy tale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet
Lead her up a stairwell
This ain't Hollywood
This is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down
Now it's too late for you and your white horse to come around

Taylor Swift

#6. Right person, wrong timing doesn't mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else. Look for it.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

Todd Rundgren

#8. I am very grateful that I am in touch with so many different church groups. I am always very moved by the fact that so many people - practically over the spectrum of the Christian world - are responding to my writing.

Henri Nouwen

#9. The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. My favorite uncle was gay," she says, "and he doesn't like to dance, either." She looks at Chad. "I don't like that word. Fag. Don't use it, okay?

Jessica Warman

#11. It's like the landscape is an interrupted sentence, one side dangling in the air, unfinished, and the other, a completely different subject.

Veronica Roth

#12. Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

Alfred Noyes

#13. I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'

Mayim Bialik

#14. Of course, the main reason is the change of law in the way Germany has brought Nazi war criminals to trial. The previous rules was that you'd have to have tangible evidence, and documentary evidence was not sufficient.

Marvin Hier

#15. The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

Mark Rothko