Qumars Behzadi Quotes & Sayings

Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context. — John Wesley

Repent heart, rebirth of spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. — Jimmy Dean

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. — Peter Warlock

Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo is so different than the one I see in a mirror - not to mention the "self" that I see in my mind's eye? Pondering it can pretty easily cast me into a vortex of self-doubt, wondering how the me that people experience - my voice, my personality, my creative expression - is regarded without my knowledge. — Keith Murray

The military spirit makes you obedient, it makes you physically very disciplined; but inwardly your mind is gradually destroyed because you are imitating, following, copying. You become a mere tool of the older people, of the politician, an instrument of propaganda. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon. — Alice Hoffman

All around me the options seemed to be narrowing, as if I were hurtling down a huge black funnel, the whole world squeezing in tight. — Tim O'Brien

You don't know who your friends are ... until you're not like them anymore. — Jack Womack

And I wonder how the Society ever caught her that day on the ocean. — Ally Condie

A family man from Siberia
As a father was very inferior
But one operation
Revised the situation
And now he's Mother Superior — Spike Milligan

Sometimes I think that this whole thing, this whole business of a world that keeps waking itself up and bothering to go on every day, is necessary only as a manifestation of the intolerable. The intolerable is like H.G. Wells's invisible man, it has to put on clothes in order to be seen. So it dresses itself up in a world. Possibly it looks in a mirror but my imagination doesn't go that far. — Russell Hoban