Nabir Quotes

#1. Nabir came out to drive the children away, but she stopped him. "I like to be friendly she said."
"But they are not your friends," said Nabir. "You don't know them."
"Respect first," Nabir would have said if he could have explained, "friendship after.

Rumer Godden

#2. John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.

Jimmy Fallon

#3. CAPULET: ...Well, we were born to die.

William Shakespeare

#4. Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.

Gillian Armstrong

#5. To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

Laozi

#6. I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God He lifts me up where I can see clearly, where everything has a distinct contour.

Chiang Kai-shek

#7. A good poet feels what his community feels.
Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

Gil Scott-Heron

#8. Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

Fred Alan Wolf

#9. What must be shall be.

William Shakespeare

#10. What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#11. If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

Albert Brooks

#12. The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

Mitch Kapor

#13. I haven't had a worst business decision, because I believe all things work together for good.

Tyler Perry

#14. Finally, there are the dangers inherent in any autobiographical work: the temptation to color events in ways favorable to the writer, the tendency to overestimate the interest one's experiences hold for others,

Barack Obama

#15. Two Ancients' mates in the same family. Maybe you are more like Rhyn than I gave you credit for. Both of you are blemishes on your family.

Lizzy Ford

#16. Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Georges Carpentier