Samirah Al Quotes

#1. Let's start again. Hi, I'm Samirah al-Abbas... You can call me Sam. Everyone does. I'll be your Valkyrie this evening. Pleased to meet you properly... I will now escort you to dinner." She forced a smile. "If you embarrass me, I'll be the first to kill you.

Rick Riordan

#2. Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

Philip Roth

#3. I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want.

Barack Obama

#4. Just follow my lead,' I said. 'It'll be fun.'

'Please,' Sam begged, 'don't let those words be carved on my tombstone.

Rick Riordan

#5. He felt a giant among pygmies, a pike among crappies, as he stood there among the legislators, most of whom owed him for flavors - special bills passed for their law clients, state jobs for constituents, " contributions" for their personal campaign funds, and so on.

A.J. Liebling

#6. False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.

Charles Tomlinson

#7. I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

Annie Lennox

#8. Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

William Penn

#10. Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

Mike Myers

#11. practice has become a real oasis in a chaotic week. It's when we invite the Holy Spirit to fill us again so we can get up on Sunday and sing in a way that leads people into a deeply personal encounter with God.

Carol Cymbala