Quotes About Nadira

#1. His mother asked, "And when is a marriage successful?" He had the feeling she was about to provide the answer, the very answer that people the world over were searching for. And he was right. "When the wife loves the husband," Nadira told him. "Not just loves him, but is crazy about him! Only then.

Anat Talshir

#2. I had no idea there'd be so many Sherpas aboard!" exclaimed Miss Simpkins.
"I'm not a Sherpa," Nadira said. "I'm a gypsy."
"Oh, my goodness!" said the chaperone.

Kenneth Oppel

#3. I could not help staring back, for they made quite a contrast: Kate's pale skin and elegant purple suit, Nadira's dusky skin and exotic fiery sari.
"Do we clash?" Nadira said dryly.
"We certainly do," said Kate. "Would you like me to move?"
"Don't trouble yourself.

Kenneth Oppel

#4. Nadira gave Kate a long hard look. "Mr. Slater has the ship. Mr. Cruse has the coordinates. I have the key. What exactly do you have?"
For the first time Kate looked flustered.

Kenneth Oppel

#5. Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Bertrand Russell

#6. You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be hard for people to recapture. Hard for people to live with.

Craig Finn

#7. Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union.

Rebecca McClanahan

#8. I stared at Kate in disbelief.
"I know, I know," she said, walking toward me, hands raised as if to calm a dangerous beast.
"She's not coming," I said.
"She's coming."
"She can't."
"She's coming.

Kenneth Oppel

#9. She would say that God put us in this situation to conquer, and to transcend reality and be something more. But

Derrick Hibbard

#10. We all see the same thing, but interpretive it differently.

Sukant Ratnakar

#11. I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

Scott Hamilton

#12. So what I suggest you start doing is fucking this world better than she's ever been fucked and start acting like a motherfucker that wants that big money rock - fuck.

J.M. August

#13. I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't guarantee, it's our children's safety. My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. And I swear I'll never let that happen.

Suzanne Collins

#14. This way," she said, veering toward the roof's edge. "Can you jump?"
"Oh, I can jump!"
"Then jump!

Kenneth Oppel

#15. Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.

Garth Brooks

#16. This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could follow his own way of thinking, of believing.

Vladimir Bukovsky

#17. You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl.
"None," I said.
"I've heard that about you.

Kenneth Oppel

#18. You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.

Albert Finney