Nuruddin Farah Quotes

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Nuruddin Farah

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Information

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Win

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Peace
  • Myself
  • Shoes

• All of my businesses are profitable.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Businesses
  • Profitable

• It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Europe
  • China
  • France

• I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie - it was like NASCAR for potheads.

  

  Ann Coulter

• I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Good
  • Great
  • Comedy

• You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Different
  • Inspired

• I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Time
  • Work

• As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Good
  • Risk
  • Innovation

• Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

  

  Daniel Schorr
  • Trying

• I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

  

  Alberto Tomba
  • Mother

• I had fallen in love with photography and was making a living doing photographic features for publications such as 'Picture Post,' 'Paris Match' and 'Life' magazine. But in 1939, I saw a huge headline, which I think was in the 'Sunday Express.' It said, 'Danzig - Danger Point of Europe.' I packed up my Leica, got on a train, and went.

  

  Douglas Slocombe
  • Life
  • Up
  • Picture

• When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People

• There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Guy
  • Fighting
  • Green

• Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

  

  David Ortiz
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Fighting

• We've got to be able to overcome adversity. We've got to step up and accept the challenge when things go wrong. Instead of moping about it and dropping our heads, we've got to accept the challenge and keep fighting, and we're not doing that right now.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Up
  • Fighting
  • Challenge

• There are three acts of faith, assent, acceptance, and assurance.

  

  John Flavel
  • Faith
  • Acceptance

• Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

  

  Joseph Hall
  • Enjoy
  • Envy
  • Pity

• That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

  

  Nuruddin Farah
  • Fighting
  • Changing
  • Civil War