Islamic Thought Provoking Quotes & Sayings

That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly. — Annabel Pitcher

Her friend is having a party, this Russian girl, they became friends because they have the same violin tutor. The first time I met the girl's mother, I think she was wearing something illegal, like the fur of an extinct animal, and she was trying to pretend that she did not have a Russian accent, being more British than the British! — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When I was young and had no sense
In far-off Mandalay
I lost my heart to a Burmese girl
As lovely as the day.
Her skin was gold, her hair was jet,
her teeth were ivory;
I said, "For twenty silver pieces,
Maiden, sleep with me."
She looked at me, so pure, so sad,
The loveliest thing alive,
And in her lisping, virgin voice,
Stood out for twenty-five. — George Orwell

The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history. — Walter Lord

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.' — Paramahansa Yogananda