Darabi Bombay Quotes & Sayings

I don't differentiate much between thoughts and words. To be
honest, I also have no high opinion of thoughts. I have a better opinion
of things. — Hermann Hesse

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers. — William S. Burroughs

I don't think there's a black and white
answer. I think I've been swimming in the gray state of things for so long — Krista Ritchie

And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe. It — Ernest Cline

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. — John Fowles

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger. — Willa Cather

There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. — Warren E. Burger

Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to make people generally more wise and more skilful than they have been in the past, I believe that we should look for it in medicine. It is true that medicine as it is currently practiced contains little of much use. — Rene Descartes

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing. — Tori Amos

Your Saying "God is Most Great" does not mean that He is greater than something else, since there is nothing else alongside of Him, so that it could be said that He is greater than it. Rather, the meaning of Allahu Akbar is that He is much too great to be perceived by the senses or for the depths of His Majesty to be reached by reason and logic, and indeed, that He is much too great to be known by an other-than-Him for truly, no one knows God but God. — Ibn Ata Allah

Leonardo da Vinci. He knew and achieved more than possibly any other man that ever lived. He was never satisfied with the knowledge he had; he always wanted to learn more about the workings of the world. — Can Akdeniz

I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood. — Rainer Maria Rilke