Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

Mahmoud Darwish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: palestinian
  • Birth: March 13, 1941 - August 9, 2008

Topics

TodayTomorrowWorldBetterAhead

I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

John C. Calhoun

I AmCompromiseResolutionSayMean

We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive around in a Terminator, not the heroine in an E. M. Forster novel.

Jeremy Clarkson

GoodDriveSmallKnowWantOil

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

Matt Groening

KnowWhyWillAgainEnjoyedDid

I was a little tiger. I loved skating. You couldn't get me out of my skates. As many times as I could go to the rink, I was there.

Tonya Harding

MeLovedYouTigerGoSkating

'New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.

Tommy Davidson

BusinessCityHoodNewMoviesLike

In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to 'The Avengers,' I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline.

Tom Hiddleston

TimeMeHairShortEnoughLook

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

Tom Stoppard

TheatreObstaclesRoadDisaster

She died praying that she might die.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

DieSheMightPrayingDied

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!

Doris Lessing

TimeCityExtraordinaryEverything

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

Cory Lidle

WorkDoneRoomMayGetWeight

I started acting professionally at age 19.

Bruce Boxleitner

AgeActingStartedProfessionally

I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.

Wladimir Klitschko

DisciplineYourselfTrainingTalent

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