Tahereh Mafi Quotes

A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.

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• I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • World
  • Generation

• Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Done

• The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Alone

• They look right. And you move left.

  

  Bruce Willis

• I was once so terrified of acting that I used to pretend I was ill to get out of drama.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Drama

• In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

  

  John Naisbitt
  • Work
  • May
  • Model

• Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Doors
  • Letters
  • Piglet

• One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Letters

• I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Enough
  • Rich
  • Letters

• Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Time
  • Letters
  • Readers

• Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Up
  • God
  • Words

• We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Spirit
  • Masters
  • Letters

• Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Heaven
  • Letters
  • Daughters

• [A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Reading
  • Letters

• A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Angry
  • Rejection
  • Nasty

• If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all

  

  Lala Lajpat Rai
  • Power
  • Education
  • Food

• A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • May
  • Mood

• Letters are things, not pictures of things.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Things
  • Pictures
  • Letters

• To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Reading
  • Lines
  • Hunting

• I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it's very important to look at the letters that are in my book, because unlike some of the recent published letters, I have both the personal and the political. And their relationship is about ardor. It's about fun. And it's also about politics.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Love
  • Book
  • Relationship

• Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • End
  • Books

• God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • God
  • Changed
  • Complicated

• This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it’s like when you and someone else are right together. How simple it is, and how amazing.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Together
  • Happiness
  • Letters

• A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
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