Iqbal Lahori Quotes & Sayings

I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst ... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless ... — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet. — Wanda Sykes

No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it. — Nancy Farmer

There are those of us that believe if you truly want to try drive down the cost of gas, if you really want to solve the problem, then you should be pursuing the extraction of our resources that are right here at home: alternative energy and traditional. — Jason Chaffetz

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro. — Robert Crippen

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it. — Vanessa Carlton

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia. — Meg Ryan

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases. — Walter Lippmann

Respect was letting her want anything that got her off. Not just that, but giving it to her, in all its filthy, debauched glory. — Kit Rocha

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing. — Neil Jordan

She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat."
"It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail. — P.C. Cast

Zafar, the eagle has not landed - the eagle refuses to land actually. I need help. — Zeenat Mahal

So you talk about the mobs and the working classes as if they were the question. You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the baron's wars. — G.K. Chesterton

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young. — Mark Twain