Sadaqat Ali Quotes & Sayings

When I was admitted to the University of Leiden, I expected to be presented with a single narrative of events and their significance and one explanation for why everything had happened as it did. Instead, the professors began every course with a central question; spent a lot of time on definitions and their importance; then presented key thinkers and their critics over time. My job as a student was to grasp the central question; to learn about the thinkers, their theories of power, political elites, mass psychology and sociology, and public policy; the methods by which they got to their conclusions; their critics and their methods of criticism. The point of all these exercises was to learn to improve on old ways of doing things through critical thinking. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and expectation in its only comfortable form
that of absolute faith
is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain. — Thomas Hardy

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. — Thomas Hughes

A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire. — Rabih Alameddine

Red Bull doesn't give you wings, it just makes ya sick. — Niall Horan

As a southerner I had been brought up to believe that through conditioning and experience you could accept with some measure of tranquility any of the flaws in the human situation. But death is one flaw that always lands like a fist in the center of the forehead. No matter how many times you see it, or smell its gray rotting odor, or come close to buying it yourself, each time is always like the first. No amount of earlier experience prepares you for it, and after it happens the world is somehow unfairly diminished and bent out of shape. — James Lee Burke

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao-Tzu

Their silence is praise enough. — Terence

I told him he could take it
and the rest of the stereo equipment, too. "Jesus," he said, "if I knew you were
going to be so nice, I wouldn't have already packed all of your CDs." That made
me laugh a little. "Yesterday," he said, "you were all mine. Every freckle. And
today, we're talking about who gets the VCR."
"I get the VCR," I said. — Rainbow Rowell