Istibdat Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another. — Giacomo Leopardi

According to this quote from Gandhi, one should look inward, and change the things that need to be changed before demanding upon others to do the same. — Wyatt, William

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most. — Homer

And a Martian Marine who could probably kill you with your own teeth. — James S.A. Corey

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song. — Junior Kimbrough

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. — Gifford Pinchot

Listen, and you'll hear a story being told, one you may need to know. — Alice Hoffman

Love is a conquest! Love is war! — Marissa Meyer

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans. — Albert Camus

You only get one life. Well, two lives. The second one starts the moment you realize you only have one. — Karina Halle

Turkey's a NATO member. If Turkey gets attacked, we have to help defend Turkey. — Wesley Clark

Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life ... — Jane Hirshfield

GrayG: I feel like I can tell you anything.
IvyMac: You can. That's what friends do.
GrayG: I've never been friends with a girl before.
IvyMac: I'm honored to be your first. — Kristen Callihan

Only dedication to God's calling can make you say a firm "no" to everything that is in the way of its fulfillment. — Sunday Adelaja