Jigme Ugyen Quotes & Sayings

So, with smiles of most exquisite misery, and the laughing eye of utter despondency, — Jane Austen

It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in ... and he's a villain. — Ian Rush

Then I should think of Esther, who went to petition the king contrary to the law. Esther iv. 16. I thought also of Benhadad's servants, who went with ropes upon their heads to their enemies for mercy. 1 Kings xx. 31, etc. The woman of Canaan also, that would not be daunted, though called dog by Christ, Matt. xv., 22, etc., and the man that went to borrow bread at midnight, Luke xi. 5-8, etc., were great encouragements unto me. — John Bunyan

Religious controversy is the offspring of arrogance and folly; that true piety is most laudably expressed by silence and submission; that man, ignorant of his own nature, should not presume to scrutinize the nature of his God; and that it is sufficient for us to know, that power and benevolence are the perfect attributes of the Deity. — Edward Gibbon

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have. — Criss Jami

One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces. — Teju Cole

The greatest hearts carry the heaviest burdens. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting, and you can play with it a lot more because it's not you and it's so far from you, so that's very liberating as far as that goes. — Lindsay Pulsipher

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks. — Alexa Chung