Sayed Jamaluddin Afghan Quotes

#1. At night, forgotten words tried to reach me. I listened with my skin. Words tore my skin off, crept inside me, and nestled down. I was a mass of wounds. When I opened my mouth in front of the mirror, beasts lay asleep in my throat; they'd made it their home.

Margarita Karapanou

#2. A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

Richard Masur

#4. We come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.

Pema Chodron

#5. It might be funny when you get hit by a car, but not when you get run over by one.

Rob Campbell

#6. Second. - The Christian is to walk singularly, not after the world's guise, Rom. 12:2. We are commanded not to be conformed to this world, that is, not to accommodate ourselves to the corrupt customs of the world.

William Gurnall

#7. I an't a Christian like you, Eliza; my heart's full of bitterness; I can't trust in God. Why does he let things be so?" "O,

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#8. I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

Rachel Platten

#9. I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper.

L.M. Fields

#10. The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.

Gerald Stanley Lee

#11. Sometimes we sleep because we want to, sometimes because we need it, and sometimes we sleep in self-defense.

Brian Hodge

#12. There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#13. When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

Michael Clarke Duncan