Eid El Kabir Quotes & Sayings

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men. — David Hume

The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item, by the sheer nature of its being, told a story. Looking around was a little like being back on the dig, or like deciphering an ancient text, and I wondered what stories they would tell me if I only knew how to read them. — William Ritter

Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object. — Mary Kinzie

Thought of drugs the way he thought of desserts, which he also loved: a consumable that had been forbidden to him as a child and which was now freely available. — Hanya Yanagihara

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it. — Mark Russell

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards. — Richard Llewellyn

Honor your body. Keep it in good shape. It is the most important physical tool that you have. Exercise is the meditation of the body. It allows you to feel Oneness with all of Life. — Neale Donald Walsch

Hypocrites - they wear gorgeous cloaks lined with lead; pretty outside, awful inside; heavy cloaks force them to behave sedately, although seething within; cloak true character in false appearance. — Dante Alighieri

The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there's nothing to hold onto when he starts to buck. — David Duchovny

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins. — Annie Dillard

I always come back. He does, too. Actions speak. — Karen Marie Moning

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. — Salman Rushdie

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care. — Alain De Botton

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader. — Aristophanes

For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a more open veldt country where competition was keener between swiftness and stealth, and where adroitness of thinking played a preponderating role in the preservation of the species. — Raymond Dart