Moumkine Quotes

#1. Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine' -the Wisdom of our Creed is revealed through these words - 'We work in the Dark, to serve the Light. We are Assassins.'
Machiavelli

Oliver Bowden

#2. People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

William H. Whyte

#3. Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

Henry Rollins

#4. Jeffrey Carver imagines wonders and allows us to share his vision.

Terry Carr

#5. Did he, like most men, possess the superpower of knowing just when we women have turned a corner, only to swoop in and fuck shit up for us all over again? As

Andi Dorfman

#6. Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?"
"What?" He looks mortally offended. "Do I look like the kind of guy who's never had a girlfriend? Have you even met me?

Tahereh Mafi

#7. Unable to make babies, they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

Lucy Ellmann

#8. Nobody own's anybody

Karen

#9. I reflected that had he married for attraction alone he could have had me. Had he married for money alone, he could have had Miss Vincy. Instead he had chosen a compromise between the two and had ended up with Miss Charity Winthrop. I did not think he could have done worse for himself if he'd tried.

Patrice Kindl

#10. It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.

John Berger

#11. Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.

Becky Chambers

#12. Faith cannot save you from the claims of reason, except insofar as it preserves and protects that wonderful, terrible time when reason, if only for a moment, lost its claim on you.

Christian Wiman

#13. If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

Bear Bryant

#14. And you never realize
How much the darkness
Has robbed of the light
Until the very faces you love
Become ghosts
Memories.

Christopher Lilley

#15. I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert.

Pablo Neruda

#16. There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Tony Horwitz