Shabbir Tiles Quotes & Sayings

The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth — Sheryl Sandberg

What about my parents?" "What about your parents?" "I can't let them down." "Even if it means letting yourself down? Which I doubt they'd want for you. — Gayle Forman

Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it. — Carl Jung

The essential doesn't change. — Samuel Beckett

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. — Keith Miller

Jesus, Captain, you look like shit. — James S.A. Corey

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am. — Joseph Brodsky

Every time she considered getting up and doing something, her limbs wouldn't move. — Sara Shepard

We shall see that the problems we have to face concern the possible influence of Babylon, rather than of Egypt, upon Hebrew tradition. And one last example, drawn from the later period, will serve to demonstrate how Babylonian influence penetrated the ancient world and has even left some trace upon modern civilization. It is a fact, though one perhaps not generally realized, that the twelve divisions on the dials of our clocks and watches have a Babylonian, and ultimately a Sumerian, ancestry. For why is it we divide the day into twenty-four hours? We have a decimal system of reckoning, we count by tens; why then should we divide the day and night into twelve hours each, instead of into ten or some multiple of ten? The reason is that the Babylonians divided the day into twelve double-hours; and the Greeks took over their ancient system of time-division along with their knowledge of astronomy and passed it on to us. — Leonard W. King

The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs — Albert Einstein

There are no limits on how much the heart can love, the mind can imagine, or the human being can achieve. — Lynne Cox

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him. — Ernest Hemingway,

It was such rapture that it was pain. She adored him. — W. Somerset Maugham