Shafiqullah Ismail Quotes & Sayings

The tribe of clerks was an obvious one ... the junior clerks of flash houses
young gentlemen with tight coats, bright boots, well-oiled hair, and supercilious lips. Setting aside a certain dapperness of carriage, which may be termed [i]deskism[/i] for want of a better word, the manner of these persons seemed to be an exact fac-simile of what had been the perfection of [i]bon ton[/i] about twelve or eighteen months before. — Edgar Allan Poe

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you. — Dale Carnegie

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life. — Erwin McManus

They want to believe, but there are too many villains in the world and not enough heroes for anyone to truly buy into the scam that is hope. — Shaun David Hutchinson

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything. — Michael Caine

Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes. — Conan O'Brien

I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold. — Diane Arbus

You only heard the statement of the loss. You did not see the father fall as Pilar made him see the fascists die in that story she had told by the stream. You knew the father died in some courtyard, or against some wall, or in some field or orchard, or at night, in the lights of a truck, beside some road. You had seen the lights of the car from down the hills and heard the shooting and afterwards you had come down to the road and found the bodies. You did not see the mother shot, nor the sister, nor the brother. You heard about it; you heard the shots; and you saw the bodies. — Ernest Hemingway,