Bayram Quotes & Sayings

Words are how we think; stories are how we link. — Christina Baldwin

The person who has been accustomed to subdue men by force will be less inclined to the trouble of convincing or persuading them. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men. — Robert E.Lee

The world is hard and you can't have everything. — Stephen King

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control. — Samuel Smiles

Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship. — Francis Collins

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention. — Marilyn Ferguson

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it. — Joyce Carol Oates

If God saved my life, why didn't he save their lives? Is my life so much more valuable? So I'm special ... and they're
not? — Amy Harmon

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger. — Honore De Balzac

Reading has not only changed my life but saved it. the right picked at the right time - especially the one that scares us, threatens to undermine all we have been told, the one that contains forbidden thoughts - these are the books that become Eve's apples. — Terry Tempest Williams

Sophie shouldn't even have let herself love!" Ravan shot back. "First time I told my dad I liked a girl, he slathered me in honey and sealed me in a bear den for a night. Haven't liked one since."
"First time I told my mother I fancied someone, she baked me in an oven for an hour," Mona agreed, green skin paling. "I never think about boys now."
"First time I liked a boy, my dad killed him."
The group stopped and stared at Arachne.
"Maybe Sophie just had bad parents. — Soman Chainani

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear. — Sue Miller