Abdessamad El Quotes

BET, I'll never, never, ever forget them for this wonderful blessing they gave to me, to be on the 10th annual BET awards for my comeback. ~ El DeBarge

I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga. ~ El-P

That's kind of you! It means I am not good enough."
"Even "Good" is not a degree you acquire naturally." he replied. ~ Noha Alaa El-Din

Grace allows for questions ... and is the answer! EL ~ Evinda Lepins

Choose with whom to be accompanied it's your free choice, choose with whom not to be accompanied it's your right. ~ Miguel El Portugues

Don't focus on the mountain; focus on the mountain mover! HS/el ~ Evinda Lepins

I wish sometimes I could be less fierce with you. No- I feel sometimes like I ought to want to be less fierce with you. ~ Amal El-Mohtar

Offering a sacrifice of righteousness in the heat of the moment requires the water of the Spirit to be included into the fire in order to be put out! EL ~ Evinda Lepins

You know how there's that one person who stumbles into your life and you instantly have a connection with them? Someone who's a genuinely good person. Someone you just know you can build a great bond with, and it doesn't have to be in a romantic way either. It can be with someone you have no attraction to whatsoever, you just instantly recognize something in them and they in you. Like in another realm, in another life, you were meant to be together in some way. Whether with a mother, daughter, sibling, best friend, or romantic partner, it's a strong, unexplainable connection between two individuals ~ E.L. Montes

I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do that, is someone who feels like an outsider. The world is not really set up for that. ~ El-P

I still smell your absence on my skin. It smells of insomnia and rusted key locks... ~ Malak El Halabi

I'm sorry, Sarat."
"Why'd you do it?" she asked me.
"I just wanted to know."
"Don't ever apologize for that," she said. "That's all there is to life, is wanting to know. ~ Omar El Akkad

True Love takes us up, while falling in love takes us down! Oh, how He loves us! EL ~ Evinda Lepins

Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity.
("Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume") ~ Chris Bell

Only dead fish go with the flow .. I'm not dead yet, and I'm not fish either.. !! ~ Ahmad El Esseily

I watched you storm towards the restaurant door. It was a chilly December morning and the birds sitting on the high wires in the neighborhood refused to fly any longer. ~ Malak El Halabi

I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood. ~ J. D. Pardo

If you are my flower and I your water,
you'll be with me always watered ~ Miguel El Portugues

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness ... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography. ~ El Lissitzky

I recall those beautiful summer mornings with my parents by the sandy beach of Belek. My father used to teach me how to ride waves. I remember him constantly emphasizing the fact that no wave, no matter how big it is should stir enough fear inside me to keep me glued to the shore. He used to repeat those words while glancing at my mother with a smile that could set the whole sea on fire. My mother, sitting on the beach, too afraid of the deep blue sea, contented herself with building sand castles, ones my father would step on trying to drag her hopelessly into water.
Step on your sand castle and dive deep. Dive deep into the unknown. Life is damn too short for building sand castles. ~ Malak El Halabi

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face. ~ Nawal El Saadawi

You poor, deluded woman ... do you believe there is any such thing as love? ... You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us? ~ Nawal El Saadawi

To the Nightingale


On what secret night in England

Or by the incalculable constant Rhine,

Lost among all the nights of my nights,

Carried to my unknowing ear

Your voice, burdened with mythology,

Nightingale of Virgil, of the Persians?

Perhaps I never heard you, yet my life

I bound to your life, inseparably.

A wandering spirit is your symbol

In a book of enigmas. El Marino

Named you the siren of the woods

And you sing through Juliet's night

And in the intricate Latin pages

And from the pine-trees of that other,

Nightingale of Germany and Judea,

Heine, mocking, burning, mourning.

Keats heard you for all, everywhere.

There's not one of the bright names

The people of the earth have given you

That does not yearn to match your music,

Nightingale of shadows. The Muslim

Dreamed you drunk with ecstasy

His breast trans-pierced by the thorn

Of the sung rose that you redden

With your last blood. Assiduously

I plot these lines in twilight emptiness,

Nightingale of the shores and seas,

Who in exaltation, memory and fable

Burn with love and die melodiously. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein
side by side with ... visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said, "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and nexe year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

There was warmth in his large piercing brown eyes. The kind of warmth that tucks a child into bed. The same kind of warmth that dries your wet hair on a rainy December afternoon. ~ Malak El Halabi

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. ~ Calamity Jane

Sarat thought about how easy it would be to fix the mistake, to simply redraw the stars properly. But she knew that even broken history is history. The stars, cast wrong, must remain that way. It would be more wrong to change them. ~ Omar El Akkad

Worry is like a squatter: it sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! Serve it eviction papers! HS/el ~ Evinda Lepins

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving. ~ Scott Adkins

She has won, which is not an unfamiliar feeling. She is happy, which is. ~ Amal El-Mohtar

When the wind blows in your face,
when you feel you are losing your head,
when the going gets tough,
and when all else fails,
look inside you,
you are not alone. ~ Malak El Halabi

If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure. ~ Khaled Abou El Fadl

You are to my soul what God is to a mother praying for her child at the altar. ~ Malak El Halabi

Worry acts like a squatter, sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! EL. ~ Evlinda Lepins

They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
[Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte.
Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.] ~ Torquato Tasso

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay

Walk the Bowery under the El at night and all you feel is a sort of cold guilt. Touched for a dime, you try to drop the coin and not touch the hand, because the hand is dirty; you try to avoid the glance, because the glance accuses. This is not so much personal menace as universal - the cold menace of unresolved human suffering and poverty and the advanced stages of the disease alcoholism. ~ E.B. White

It became the country's official language in the 13th century under the reign of Alfonso X el Sabio (the wise one) as he tried to unify a country that was housing a number of languages, including arabic, hebrew and latin. ~ Pilar Orti

When someone is self-sufficient, when he has all the answers to all the questions, it's a sign that God is not with him. Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra, 2010 ~ Julie Schwietert Collazo

A judge who doesn't feel empathy for the accused, becomes executioner ~ Miguel El Portugues

The apostle Paul labored more abundantly than all the apostles; yet it was not he but the grace of God that was with him. By the grace of God he was what he was (1 Cor. 15:10). He fulfilled God's purpose in his ministry by enjoying the Lord's sufficient grace (2 Cor. 12:9). Paul surely was drinking of the divine udder to receive the sufficient supply of grace. He did not exercise his natural strength to produce Ishmaels but enjoyed the rich supply of the sufficient grace to bring forth many Isaacs. He lived and worked in the way of "no longer I who live, but Christ" (Gal. 2:20). The real changing of a name is the change from I to Christ - El-Shaddai, the all-sufficient grace Supplier. Only Christ, not I, can fulfill God's purpose. ~ Witness Lee