Madar Quotes

#1. That is the problem with gifts, Madar-jan. They are always given away.

Nadia Hashimi

#2. Why do we keep the Qur'an all the way up there, Madar-jan? It is so hard to reach it there! Because nothing is above the Qur'an. This is how we show our respect for the word of Allah.

Nadia Hashimi

#3. It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.

Robert Goolrick

#4. I wondered what it was to pray, because it was something I have never learned to do, and all I remember is falling.

Douglas Coupland

#5. But as Hegel teaches us, beginnings are necessarily problematic. (As are endings.) How can I describe my first encounter with Ana fairly, when my understanding of her essence has passed through infinite iterations over the past four and a half years? My

Alena Graedon

#6. The thing I'm finally learning is that someone can be your best friend in the world, but you're not necessarily theirs. I

Sherri L. Smith

#7. I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.

Christopher Lee

#8. For the oath taken by the members of the S.S. differed from the military oath sworn by the soldiers in that it bound them only to Hitler, not to Germany.

Hannah Arendt

#9. Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

Allen Boyd

#10. Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

Mark McKinnon

#11. Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land ... We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

Muhammad Ali

#12. Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.

Rita Schiano

#13. If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.

Markus Zusak

#14. War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

Cornelia Meigs