"Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up."

-- Basmah bint Saud

#Powerful Quotes #Husband Quotes #Divorce Quotes

“My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.”

Source : "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Benjamin Walker on Dancing Ballet and His Repo-Man Days". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 21, 2013.
“Get up my friend. If you're still breathing, there's still time enough for greatness.”
“To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way. The Captain”
“Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices...”

Source : 'Nun danket alle Gott' (c.1636); translated by Catherine Winkworth q.v. in her 'Lyrica Germanica' (1858)
“When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.”
“Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.”
“It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.”

Source : Samson Raphael Hirsch (1962). “Horeb: A Philosophy of Jewish Laws and Observations”, London : Soncino Press
“A kiss from my mother made me a painter.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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