Hilal Logo Quotes & Sayings

Gayness is a non-issue. — Sandra Bernhard

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Most of you will have heard the maxim "correlation does not imply causation." Just because two variables have a statistical relationship with each other does not mean that one is responsible for the other. For instance, ice cream sales and forest fires are correlated because both occur more often in the summer heat. But there is no causation; you don't light a patch of the Montana brush on fire when you buy a pint of Haagan-Dazs. — Nate Silver

A poet is a silent singer; he sings the deep songs of the soul silently. — Debasish Mridha

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If he had but a little more brains, she thought to herself, I might make something of him; but she never let him perceive the opinion she had of him; listened with indefatigable complacency to his stories of the stable and the mess; laughed at all his jokes...When he came home, she was alert and happy; when he went out she pressed him to go; when he stayed at home, she played and sang for him, made him good drinks, superintended his dinner, warmed his slippers, and steeped his soul in comfort. The best of women {I have heard my grandmother say) are hypocrites. We don't know how much they hide from us: how watchful they are when they seem most artless and confidential: how often those frank smile which they wear so easily are traps to cajole or elude or disarm--I don't mean in your mere coquettes, but your domestic models and paragons of female virute. — William Makepeace Thackeray

the more brutal or austere the diet, the harder it is to keep. — Padma Lakshmi

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. — Epictetus

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are. — Benjamin Clementine

I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where,
I love you directly without problems or pride:
I love you this way because I know no other way to love, — Pablo Neruda

Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies. — E. O. Wilson

It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed during the time they were working in common. Everything in the way of naval routine was sacrificed for the time to the objects of the cruise, and the appearance of the deck and bow of the Blake was often more that of a mud-scow than of a vessel in the service of the United States. — Alexander Agassiz

Darkness does not leave up as easily as we would hope. — Kami Garcia

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround — Henri Matisse

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the least opportune moments. — Stephen King