Monsieur Ibrahim Quotes

#1. Your love for her belongs to you. It's yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, thats all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!"-Monsieur Ibrahim

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

#2. Monsieur Ibrahim: To find out if a country is rich or poor, look at the bins. If there are bins and no rubbish, it's rich. If there's rubbish by the bins, it's neither rich nor poor... it's touristy. And if there's rubbish but no bins, then it's poor.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

#3. Here's the crux of the struggle: I want to experience your vulnerability but I don't want to be vulnerable. Vulnerability is courage in you and inadequacy in me. I'm drawn to your vulnerability but repelled by mine. As

Brene Brown

#4. You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.

Adam Levine

#5. Better to be empty-handed than to be empty-minded.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.-

Marcus Aurelius

#7. I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

Tananarive Due

#8. Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

Garrison Keillor

#9. Mrs. Leigh-Waters looked even more distressed. "Oh, Louisa, you mustn't ... "
"Speak ill of the dead?" Daniel asked, before Louisa could answer. "It's not the done thing, no, but death doesn't change what a person was in life.

Jennifer Ashley

#10. For peace, let us teach the humanity, tolerance and nonviolence.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile ... a stain upon the silence.

Samuel Beckett

#12. I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

Chuck Klosterman

#13. Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do.

Srividya Srinivasan

#14. As long as the two nuclear superpowers maintain arsenals in the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, there is no way they can with any consistency urge that other nations not be allowed to acquire theses weapons.

Stansfield Turner

#15. Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

Candace Bushnell