Bardha Tkom Quotes & Sayings

Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky. — Rumi

I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am also inspired by hard work and powerful people who have maintained a sense of integrity, decency, and kindness. Love really inspires me. — Erica Tazel

Perhaps it does us good to have a fall every now and then. As long as we don't break. — J.M. Coetzee

I didn't have to be a slave to the worst tendencies of my personality. — Kevin Leman

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage. — Jessica Savitch

Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill. — Keith O'Brien

Death peeked around corners; it winked at her in the mirror then vanished; it hummed along with the radio and then faded away. It wheedled into her mind and her words, leaving a humid vapor around her heart and a thick fuzzy taste on her tongue. — Brandy Heineman

Apparently, after 20 minutes of waterboarding, not only will you admit allegiance to Osama bin Laden, you'll gladly die just to have relief. — Kenneth Eade

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment. — Janette Turner Hospital

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it. — Jons Jacob Berzelius

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. — Thomas Moore

Play on the frontiers of technology. Be ahead of the tomorrows. — Dhirubhai Ambani

As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south. — Carolyn Kizer

When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties. — Joan Collins