Sadat Ali Manto Quotes & Sayings

My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them.
My mother does not own my eyes, though she frequently directs their focus.
My mother does not own my mind, though she yields great influence upon it.
My heart, however, she owns completely, for it was hers the day I was born. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill. — Andre Rieu

I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally. — Emma Bonino

Did all Finns like to make clever witticisms about life? Or was it just this one driver? Tsukuru hoped it was the latter. — Haruki Murakami

The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal. — Kurt Vonnegut

I've got nothing to say most of the time. — David Byrne

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care. — Ernest Cline

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14. — Earl Monroe

Though bad names and deeds those bring them spread fast, words of praise from selfless tongues pass miles and to million faster. — Doctor Kesi

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out. — Albert Pike

Unless we have the wealth to pay for private education, we are compelled by law to go to public school - and to the public school in our district. Thus the state, by requiring attendance but refusing to require equity, effectively requires inequality. Compulsory inequity, perpetuated by state law, too frequently condemns our children to unequal lives. — Jonathan Kozol

In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto. — Bartholomew Roberts

Genius knows no country, genius sprouts anywhere, genius is like light, air. the patrimony of everybody, cosmopolitan like space, like life, like God. — Jose Rizal

Get temperance of lip, life, heart, and thought. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon