Rajae Belmir Quotes

#1. The Americans have always been better than the Iraqis at the leaflets. Early on in the first Gulf War, Iraqi PsyOps dropped a batch of their own leaflets on US troops, designed to be psychologically devastating. They read, 'Your wives are back at home having sex with Bart Simpson and Burt Reynolds.

Jon Ronson

#2. I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.

Ruta Sepetys

#3. The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. This entire ordeal taught me a valuable lesson. People are important-not things. I was no longer keeping up with the Joneses, material things or lots of money; that mattered very little to me. Life isn't about having, is about being.

Silvia Corradin

#5. Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Pythagoras

#6. The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

Helen Cresswell

#7. My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in preschool - I don't know why.

Charlie Tahan

#8. It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Ben Okri

#9. Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.

Aasif Mandvi