Rania Al Abdullah Quotes

#1. We can spend out lives letting others dictate our narrative, and cast ourselves as the victims. Or we can realize the truth: that we are the creators of our own story.

Rania Al-Abdullah

#2. Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special - otherwise "special" wouldn't mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, "Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones" - and this is the problem.

Tim Urban

#3. Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater

Rania Al-Abdullah

#4. I had to climb a mountain. There were all kinds of obstacles in the way. I had now to jump over a ditch, now to get over a hedge, and finally to stand still because I had lost my breath.
This was the dream of a stutterer.

Joseph Campbell

#5. We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share.

Rania Al-Abdullah

#6. There will be plenty of backup and support, but she's still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don't understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dripping from her fingertips is coming for them.

Charles Stross

#7. The United States allegedly presses for democratic change in the region, and when it happens, democracy brings to power anti-US parties.

Khaled Hroub

#8. There were many factors as to why I decided to come out as being undocumented. One of them is because I look the way that I look; I don't look like the 'stereotypical undocumented' person.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#9. You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.

Megan McCafferty