Zaid's Quotes

#1. Zaid's finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that "the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more."
That's me! And you, probably! That's us!

Nick Hornby

#2. The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

Gabriel Zaid

#3. The Maddoxes could sense trouble. At least it seemed that way, because whenever there was a fight, they had either started it, or finished it. Usually both.

Jamie McGuire

#4. Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.

Alecko Eskandarian

#5. Like Johnson, Lewis was more impressive in his conversation than in his poetry, and more impressive in his prose - particularly in his learned prose - than in his conversation.

Jocelyn Gibb

#6. The Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person. (1 Sam. 10:6)

Beth Moore

#7. As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

Gabriel Zaid

#8. Don't call me a Postmodern!

Wayne Rooney

#9. What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we've read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.

Gabriel Zaid

#10. Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities

Gabriel Zaid

#11. Too many Muslims are involved in marriages that devolve into an empty observation of duties and an equally vacuous demand for the fulfillment of rights.

Zaid Shakir

#12. This is going to take forever."
"I wouldn't mind spending forever with you," Zaid winked.

Aishabella Sheikh

#13. Preserving everything is a form of negligence that causes a new kind of damage: the loss of what matters in a glut of the insignificant. To preserve everything is to lose everything.

Gabriel Zaid

#14. The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

Gabriel Zaid

#15. Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we've chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.

Gabriel Zaid

#16. And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there?

Jacqueline Winspear

#17. When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

Will Rogers

#18. The professionals must set a good example.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#19. Behind the world's most difficult problems are people - groups of people who don't get along together. You can blame crime, war, drugs, greed, poverty, capitalism or the collective unconscious. The bottom line is that people cause our problems.

Zaid Hassan

#20. No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

Ann Voskamp

#21. I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again ... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul

J.G. Ballard

#22. M. de Charlus made no reply and looked as if he had not heard, which was one of his favourite forms of rudeness.

Marcel Proust

#23. You don't have any problems, all you need is faith in God.

R. W. Schambach

#24. Humans are probably the only creatures who know that they will die. They know for certain and yet they keep going. A resilient spirit and a need to survive does not make for cowardice.
Salma to Merrick in Simple Conversation

Sonia Rumzi

#25. Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It's a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either love or hate them, but that's not how people are.

Trevor Noah

#26. Quantity impresses, and anyone can appreciate it at first sight. Quality isn't as obvious, or as easy to appreciate. As if that weren't enough, quantity is easier to produce, less labor-intensive, cheaper, less risky than saying: Not this.

Gabriel Zaid

#27. U-boat commanders called this their 'Happy Time'. Between January and July 1942 they sank 495 merchant
ships and 142 tankers, a total of 2,500,000 tons. Why did it take America so long to respond to such an obvious threat?

Derek Robinson