Makaria Meal Quotes

#1. I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.

Baruch Spinoza

#2. One of the most primal survival instincts the brain has is finding pattern and assigning meaning. When there is a breakdown, it will scramble to find those patterns again as quickly as possible.

Eileen Cook

#3. Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.

E. Lockhart

#4. Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Abraham Cowley

#5. I need to buy you some bling. A big fucking ring or tiara with my name on it so men know to stop flirting with you.

Bijou Hunter

#6. Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.

Henry Grunwald

#7. He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to even see her, of being actually inside her ear.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#8. The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. We should not fool ourselves. When the Quran says wa la qad karamna Bani Adam ["we have honored the Children of Adam"] so yes we should all be free but this should not mean that we must act against the dignity of human beings.

Tariq Ramadan

#10. They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.

Winston Churchill