Honour By Elif Shafak Quotes

#1. Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

Albert Schweitzer

#2. I'm from out of town, he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

Iain Banks

#3. Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

Alfred Hitchcock

#4. Wonder is the antidote to religion.

Brandan Roberston

#5. So if you had the chance . . . even if there was no music and no ballgown, no tuxedo or gala . . . when your true love asked you to dance? It was important to say yes.

J.R. Ward

#6. When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.

Philippe Halsman

#7. Everything is a test.

Terry Pratchett

#8. No, no. I was on America's Top Model. It was good. Yeah, I was up there, I wore a dress. It was awesome.

Blake Lewis

#9. It's not hard for me to figure out who I like or who my friends are. I trust my energy meter, but I'm also not afraid to let people in who might hurt me.

Kristen Stewart

#10. Don't say it, unless you mean it...

J.M. Darhower

#11. There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

Helen Mirren

#12. You want to be a trader, come be a trader. The door's open. You want to travel six days a week, you want to travel the world, the door's open.

Ivan Glasenberg

#13. So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

Nirmala Srivastava