Roxana Quotes

#1. Roxana, when you go back to America, please tell others that our country is not only about the nuclear issue--it's also about people like us." -- my former cellmate, Mahvash Sabet, who is serving 20 years in prison in Iran as one of the leaders of the minority Baha'i faith

Roxana Saberi

#2. I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect ... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

Sarah Dessen

#3. Where is our gift?
Inside our heart
What is our purpose?
To open our heart and start giving our gift away

Roxana Jones

#4. Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your shoulders, by nightfall, felt dragged down." p 320

Roxana Robinson

#5. In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

Stephen Batchelor

#6. She's my retirement gift, the platinum watch for being a mother." " This fortunate position - the one you couldn't apply for - is one you can't lose either. It's yours for life: this will always be your daughter's daughter. These two will always be yours, and you, theirs. I'll always be her Nana.

Roxana Robinson

#7. It was like hearing customs from an undiscoverd race: what men thought was unimaginable....She wondered if all human activity were like this, everything, every gesture, every comment colored faintly by gender. Each side continually astonished, confused by the other's misperceptions. p 133

Roxana Robinson

#8. Are you ready for the God that dwells in your heart ?

Roxana Jones

#9. If you don't want to change, how are you going to handle living with this limitation for the rest of your life?

Peter W. Murphy

#10. The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never be able to outrun. Nobody can shake off their own shadow.

Haruki Murakami

#12. Violence is never right. But a man has a duty to keep his wife in check.

Ellen Hopkins

#13. The crimes you paid for as a parent: excruciating, to be blamed for something you'd never dreamt of doing, or huring someone you'd give your heart's blood to...One thing you learned as a parent was humility.

Roxana Robinson

#14. The gate, probably built to accommodate an elephant procession, opens slowly and reveals an abandoned city dreamed up by a doomed king.

Mohammed Hanif

#15. I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

#16. You know, even U2 took a little time off, and then they came back with a new sound.

Daron Malakian

#17. Love your body, love your sexuality, and realize that you are a bad human being only if you are unkind and cruel and do harm unto others and not because of your sex life.

Roxana Shirazi

#18. I mean that the escape of knowledge into the realm of wider society irretrievably alters the nature of our lives.

Nick Harkaway

#19. Forget how vast darkness can be
Focus on how powerful your light is ...
When you turn it on

Roxana Jones