Ibaad Sadiq Quotes & Sayings

Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths. — Peter Cundill

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement. — Robert Rauschenberg

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. — Henry David Thoreau

I am when the Chinese, who know everything, build a house, they consult the precepts of an ancient science, Feng Shui, which tells them exactly how, when, and where the work must be done, and so brings good fortune to the home forever. — Jan Morris

We shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, — Nicholas Sparks

Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for. — Stephen Covey

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — W. H. Auden

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good
a mere stranger will do no harm. — Benjamin Whichcote

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. — Thomas Carlyle

From the book:
Fall On Your Knees pg. 124
One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

There's nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted. — Diana Dors

She led him to the top of the stairs, where light came straight from the sky because the second-story windows of that house had been placed in the pitched ceiling and not the walls. There were two rooms and she took him into one of them, hoping he wouldn't mind the fact that she was not prepared; that though she could remember desire, she had forgotten how it worked; the clutch and helplessness that resided in the hands; how blindness was altered so that what leapt to the eye were places to lie down, and all else - doorknobs, straps, hooks, the sadness that crouched in corners, and the passing of time - was interference. — Toni Morrison

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth. — Mark Van Doren