Nuruddin Farah Quotes

#1. There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

Albert Einstein

#2. That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Nuruddin Farah

#3. His excitement was the taper that ignited our sluggish souls.

Sarah Winman

#4. I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

Nuruddin Farah

#5. As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior

Albert Bandura

#6. To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

Mark Twain

#7. I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

Chelsea Handler

#8. She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

Nuruddin Farah

#9. How come I never meet any nice girls?

Dante Alighieri

#10. Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read.

Peter Rosegger

#11. I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

Rumi

#12. Maybe it is in the nature of those who are denied sex or do not have enough of it to be so preoccupied with the subject that they view everything else through its distorted lens. "What

Nuruddin Farah

#13. ... "Don't Somalis take the part and mistake it for the whole too?" Jeebleh knew e was in a distancing mode, apart from 'them'. ...

Nuruddin Farah

#14. We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution

Richard Dawkins

#15. The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.

Thomas Carlyle

#16. Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

Nuruddin Farah

#17. To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

Nuruddin Farah

#18. And when there is the possibility of peace, a new fight erupts, based on an old complaint, and which some people call justice adn others madness.

Nuruddin Farah

#19. I like a woman with meat on her bones."
She laughed. "My hips express their deepest appreciation, Major Winslow.

Laura Taylor

#20. Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

Nuruddin Farah

#21. To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.

George Muller

#22. It's always fallen to women to forge the peace between all these hot-blooded men, always ready to go to war at the slightest provocation....Why do men behave the way they do, warring?"
"What do you think?" he asked.
"Maybe because they've got no sense of grief?

Nuruddin Farah