Nujood's Quotes

#1. Nujood's rebellion, honorable in our eyes, is moreover considered by conservatives as an outrageous affront, punishable, according to extremist, by a murderous "honor crime.".

Nujood Ali

#2. Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.

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#3. There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

Mignon McLaughlin

#4. I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' - songs that go straight to the point.

Bruno Mars

#5. In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.

Norodom Sihamoni

#6. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

Helen Keller

#7. A divorce party
that's really better than a wedding party!

Nujood Ali

#8. I was alone, so alone. No one to confide in, no one to talk to.

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#9. Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple ...

Carlson Gracie

#10. I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.

Nujood Ali

#11. His bark is worse than his bite.

George Herbert

#12. In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. Wisdom, information, an idea, is the link between the metaphysical Creator and the physical creation. It is the hidden face of God.

Gerald Schroeder

#14. Life is really weird, I thought. It's not just bad people who spread misery - even pretty things can be hurtful. So hard to understand

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#15. The camera also took a moment or two to linger on Chase's athletic breasts, her erect nipples, and her pubic hair, which was dirty blond and luxuriant and not at all in the modern prepubescent shaven-porn idiom which Naomi loathed;

David Cronenberg

#16. Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.

Nujood Ali

#17. The trouble with space is, there's so much of it.
An ocean of blackness without any shore.
A neverending nothing.
And here, all alone in the million billion miles of midnight, is one solitary moving speck. A fragile parcel filled with sleeping people and their dreams.

Philip Reeve

#18. My father had the right idea. Begin from an assumption of insanity and then laugh, where possible.

Hanif Kureishi

#19. It's completely juvenile but it doesn't stop me from reaching out as if to catch her kiss and bring it to my lips. I look like a pussy, but what can I say? Love makes you do silly things and catching an air kiss would definitely fall under that category.

Georgia Cates

#20. I was in Nashville and I was having just the most amazing time there, discovering who I was as an artist because that is such a music city. Everyone there is so friendly and inspiring and down to jam.

Lisa Origliasso