Misagh Sadat Quotes

#1. A diary means yes indeed.

Gertrude Stein

#2. When I have you bent over this couch, which one of your names should I moan?

Teresa Mummert

#3. He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and both of these elements are suspects to the one whom he has made powerful.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#4. Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have continued if the book hadn't been written. When you come across a book like that it is a privilege.

Hisham Matar

#5. Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

Jill Scott

#6. I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.

Tom Lehrer

#7. Love is the perfect safety, or the perfect weapon.

Bryant McGill

#8. Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

Dan Harmon