Noorullah Akhtar Quotes & Sayings

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song. — Carl Perkins

There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of ... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice. — Bill Gates

Happiness is the heavenly light of joy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint Jerome. How is that a saint?
You've got shitty mothers all over America who would love to dump their kids and travel. — Amy Bloom

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home. — Mao Zedong

Sometimes there are no good choices. — Lesli Linka Glatter

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself. — Martin Buber

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! — Oscar Wilde

They'll read and sing a sacred song,
And make a prayer both loud and long,
And teach the right and do the wrong,
Hailing htthe brother, sister, throng,
With words of heavenly union. — Frederick Douglass

To the beginning of the rest of our lives.

- Leo — Sherry Thomas

154Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I'll walk, but not in old heroic traces,
And not in paths of high morality,
And not among the half-distinguished faces,
The clouded forms of long-past history.
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading:
It vexes me to choose another guide:
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side. — Emily Bronte

When people asked hilbert why he didn't prove Fermat's Last Theorem and win the Wolfskehl Prize, he said, "Why should I kill the goose that lays the golden egg? — Constance Bowman Reid