Naim Ateek Quotes

#1. It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

Publilius Syrus

#2. New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state.

Robert Pinsky

#3. My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.

A.R. Rahman

#4. I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Debra Winger

#5. I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Roald Dahl

#6. All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.

Habeeb Akande

#7. After all, suicide is contagious.

Suzanne Young

#8. There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. Most of the time the road is not clear ahead. We have roadblocks and obstacles and stumble because of them. Are you courageous enough to map your way around them and continue on?

Tony Curl

#10. The behavior of the minority warranted the sergeant at arms being called.

Jim McCrery

#11. I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.

Karan Bajaj

#12. Apparently, it was possible to polish a turd.

Liliana Hart

#13. And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#15. A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind.

R.A. Mathis