Minouche Shafik Quotes

#1. I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#2. As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

Tina Yothers

#3. I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'

Maira Kalman

#4. Perfect people don't drink, don't fight, don't lie, don't make mistakes and ... don't exist

Paulo Coelho

#5. I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own feet and the feet of my readers on the ground so that no matter how high we dream our dreams will be based on reality

Jack London

#6. Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.

Robert Nozick

#7. Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!

Bill Walsh

#8. A dense wall of greenery bordered it, ... an impenetrable barrier of oaks, evergreen shrubs, blackberry that somehow resisted the frost, and thorns. In the defense department, the witches would make Sleeping Beauty's evil witch weep with jealousy.

Ilona Andrews