Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Quotes

#1. It's never too late to change, unless you're already fully undressed

Benny Bellamacina

#2. I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound.

Sarah Ockler

#3. Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.

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#4. It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.

Philip Kerr

#5. My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room.

Lisa Wingate

#6. Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you renew nothing. But by setting out from it and adding to it, you renew its power, because only by addition can you prepare the future path for the living sap within it.

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#7. For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.

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#8. No more "band psycho" stuff for me. I'm fine without it.

Christian Fennesz

#9. It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.

Wayde Goodall

#10. I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

Octavia E. Butler

#11. If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Hear the other side.

Saint Augustine

#13. What if people come and take all the books away and melt them like they did to the motorcars?'
'Books don't melt.

James Howard Kunstler

#14. Thank you for knowing exactly how to handle me, because sometimes I'm not even sure how to handle myself.

Colleen Hoover

#15. When confidence is there, conviction is easy.

Debasish Mridha

#16. They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange

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#17. We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what 49 states are required to do and what every family business and every family is required to do, and that's live within their means.

John Cornyn

#18. The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.

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