Omar Barghouti Quotes

#1. When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or the girl didn't get the guy in love stories. I was definitely a sap.

Scott Michael Foster

#2. Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yourself from your own internal peace and harmony which is itself a function of your peace and harmony with God and your family.

Stephen Covey

#3. It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion the frustration will become smaller. A day will come when there will be no expectation; then you will never come across any frustration.

Rajneesh

#4. The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.

John Darnielle

#5. The only thing that made sense were the thoughts on repeat inside my head: I was about to become the husband of the second woman I'd ever loved.
It was almost time. Damn. Shit, yeah! Fuck, yes!
I was getting married!

Jamie McGuire

#6. I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them. I should be the last person that [people] should be attracted to.

Marilyn Manson

#7. You could pick out what felt surprising in a book or poem and then save it, as long as you also wrote down the name of the person who wrote it first

Blue Balliett

#8. Not only do the oppressed lose nothing when people of conscience boycott institutions that are persistently complicit in the system of oppression; in fact, they gain enormously from the ultimate weakening of this complicity that an effective and sustained boycott leads to.

Omar Barghouti

#9. If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

Chaim Potok

#10. BDS is perhaps the most ambitious, empowering, and promising Palestinian-led global movement for justice and rights. BDS has the capacity to challenge Israel's colonial rule and apartheid in a morally consistent, effective, and, crucially, intelligent manner.

Omar Barghouti

#11. Peace without justice is equivalent to institutionalizing injustice.

Omar Barghouti

#12. We were sexual targets, marked as eternal sluts for exploring the desires only acceptable in men.

Maggie Young

#13. As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

Jeff Garlin

#14. Hey, if you can't fix it, let someone else fix it for you.

Melody Mayer

#15. The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

W. H. Auden

#16. Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

Nancy Pearcey

#17. I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.

Frank Perdue

#18. Satan will aggressively fight against the renewal of your mind, but it is vital that you press on and continue to pray and study in this area until you gain measurable victory.

Joyce Meyer