Ismaili Dua Quotes & Sayings

What's the good of a home, if you are never in it? — George Grossmith

May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time ... — Charlotte Turner Smith

Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done. — Ze Frank

You are always a bishop with a ambition and second as a fisher. — Deyth Banger

From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution. — Michael Hintze

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours. — Tom Stoppard

So quiet ... it's like ... all the sounds in the world ... have been stopped ... only you scent ... in the deepest part of my heart ... echoing ... — Yuu Watase

When I'm not on set, I'm in the studio. — Katherine McNamara

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted]. — Christopher Hitchens

Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until eventually they end up in prison. — Stephen Colbert

I now know how your anger
came from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them. — Susie Clevenger

People pushed by force of habit, pushed for the pure pleasure of pushing, and they would go on pushing until you showed them you were willing to push back, at which point you would earn their respect. — Paul Auster

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem. — Richard Dawkins

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. — Edmund Burke

Haroche opened his hand, dismissing the difference. "A matter of medical definition, not practical use. I'm a practical man. I've been studying the reports of your Dendarii missions for ImpSec. You and Simon Illyan made an extraordinary team." We were the best, oh yes. Miles grunted, neutrally, suddenly uncertain of just where Haroche was leading. Haroche smiled wryly. "Filling Illyan's place is a damned big challenge. I'm reluctant to give up any advantage. Now that I've had a chance to work with you in person, and look over your records in real detail . . . I'm increasingly sure that Illyan made a serious mistake when he discharged you. — Lois McMaster Bujold