Shukri Quotes

#1. We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning
of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#2. Because of Obama ... DREAMers who are American in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation.

Nydia Velazquez

#3. You will find very exquisite flowers sometime even on a dust-heap, as well as where humanity grows thickest and rankest.

Hume Nisbet

#4. Marriage is a series of promises.

J.D. Robb

#5. I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

William Shakespeare

#6. When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

Patti Smith

#7. Each difference in a relationship represents an opportunity for the participants to grow and stretch.

Les Carter

#8. I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Emily Bronte

#9. [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars ... seafaring ...

Marsilio Ficino

#10. I wasn't an alcoholic. I didn't drink every day, didn't often drink to excess or binge. And could leave it alone completely for large swaths of time. But I did drink to be social. To have fun with friends. Sometimes, to sleep. Sometimes, to forget.

Ellen Hopkins

#11. I've spent more than two decades speaking to women through magazines. What's so exciting about Yahoo is that I can inspire and connect with hundreds of millions more women, and bring them the magic of the fashion world in ways they haven't yet experienced.

Joe Zee

#12. As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transcendent forces ultimately beyond human control. The apparent futility of this perspective was outweighed by the nobility that came with the struggle.

Thomas Van Nortwick

#13. Despite that, for a fleeting moment I have the urge to ask if Dean Thomas is still in Gryffindor, or if he's gone over to Hufflepuff, where I'd always believed he belonged. But my father wouldn't get the joke, and in this case, Dean isn't a first name.

Mimi Cross

#14. None of them seriously believed the stories they told themselves about themselves.

Stepan Chapman

#15. American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

Cornel West