Shafiqul Alam Quotes & Sayings

It was like he belonged in some whole other universe than here, a star on earth, permanently grounded and yearning to be in the sky. — Karina Halle

In that he didn't die at the finish line, he could have run faster — Tim Noakes

The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized. — Brian Sutton-Smith

There is no end to what can be said about the world — Julia Alvarez

I've lost you, forever, so many times. And I'd do it all again. — Nika Harper

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites. — Colum McCann

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. — Margaret Deland

He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking to return to that original self, if, in fact, it ever existed. And yet, he was helpless but to regard that unmistakable fear that gripped him in his dream as a sign that his unevenness lent him now to utter incongruity with this specter of past. — Ashim Shanker

Opportunities, like eggs, only hatch when mature. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was ... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks. — Veronica Roth

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics. — Michael Steele

Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory. — James Joyce

Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. — David Sedaris