637 quotes found
“People can always say I don't look impressive enough, but they can't argue over how strong I am once I punch them in the face.”
“Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.”
“How you ever gonna reach the starsIf you never get off the ground?”
“Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the jo...”
“And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the h...”
“Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”
“How do you defeat terrorism? Dont be terrorized.”
“The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suff...”
“The good is the Enemy of the best. Until you depart from the good, you cannot enter God's best for your life.”
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”
“Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.”
“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repression...”
“Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam a...”
“We pull our boots on with both handsbut we can't punch ourselves awake and all I can do is stand on the curb and say Sorryabout the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.I couldn't get the boy to...”
“You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and yo...”
“Make your dreams your goals, so that they are a part of you and not just a wish.”
“At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in ...”
“Militant feminists are prochoice because its their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of soci...”
“Stop playing hard to get""I'm hard to get. I'm not playing.”
“I dont need the facts. Im a Pisces.”
