Mahtab's Quotes

#1. Mahtab looked out of the window at the moon clearing the rooftops, bathing everything around in its silver light. She sighed, envying Nasim's freedom. For just like Mahtab's namesake, as the moonlight was beholden to the sun, she was beholden to her family.

Azin Sametipour

#2. Eople (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.

Garrison Keillor

#3. Even with my skin and tits, though, it's still Mel who looks better. She's got psoriasis and a mustache she has to bleach and still. It's definitely Mel who has any hope in hell with any of the boys we like.

Mona Awad

#4. What we need today is an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without: a secular ethics.

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. Love is the suspension of reality in favor of the sublime.

Jeffrey Fry

#6. The mind only knows what lies near the heart, that alone is
conscious of our affections. No disease is worse to a sensible man
than not to be content with himself.

Saemundr Frodi

#7. My soul drank enough to know how thirsty it was. This

Marie Howe

#8. Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

Arthur Desmond

#9. If I told you, you wouldn't know what I was talking about.

Erik Larson

#10. I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.

Jim Webb

#11. A good education is the greatest gift you can give yourself or anyone else.

Mahtab Narsimhan

#12. No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

Joe Biden

#13. What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006]

Salman Rushdie