Komal Aziz Quotes & Sayings

How can I wear the harness of toil
And sweat at the daily round,
While in my soul forever
The drums of Pictdom sound? — Robert E. Howard

It felt good to be bad-nora — Ilsa Madden-Mills

I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort of travel. Sitting in a chair that long, driving to Huntsville just wouldn't have happened ... I'm sure I would have been there. It's something I know. I would not have denied him that, but the accident kept me from being there. At some level, the universe was giving me the excuse for not being there ... The universe was like, "Oh, you don't have to watch this." ... It would have been a horrible thing, but I'm sure I would have gone. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic
to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them. — C.S. Lewis

Write about it by day and dream about it by night. — E.B. White

Love doesn't play fair," Tony lamented.
"Perhaps we do not understand the game," Aiden responded. — Ben Tousey

If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false. — Steven Pinker

[08:31] JPL: Good, keep us posted on any mechanical or electronic problems. By the way, the name of the probe we're sending is Iris. Named after the Greek goddess who traveled the heavens with the speed of wind. She's also the goddess of rainbows. [08:47] WATNEY: Gay probe coming to save me. Got it. — Andy Weir

If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I'd be worth millions and millions. — Heather Mills

There's not a lot of flash about me. — Anna Deavere Smith

The man slept on, indifferent to showers of hail and intervals of brightness, to sunshine on his face and shadow, to the pattering lumps of dull ice on his body and the diamonds into which the sun changed them, until the sun was low in the west, and the sky was glowing. Then, the mender of roads having got his tools together and all things ready to go down into the village, roused him. — Charles Dickens

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand. — E. M. Forster

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me. — Thomas Carlyle

I managed to be on the list of selected candidates, but admission to this prestigious institution was an expensive affair. Around a thousand rupees was required, and my father could not spare that much money. At that time, my sister, Zohara, stood behind me, mortgaging her gold bangles and chain. I was deeply touched by her determination to see me educated and by her faith in my abilities. I vowed to release her bangles from mortgage with my own earnings. The only way before me to earn money at that point of time was to study hard and get a scholarship. I went ahead at full steam. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter. — Daniel Day-Lewis