Shahid Ali Quotes & Sayings

What have you known of loss
That makes you different from other men?
- The Epic of Gilgamesh — Aga Shahid Ali

The world is full of paper, write to me — Agha Shahid Ali

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement — Naomi Klein

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power. — Thomas Sowell

If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago. — Shaun White

Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one's experiences. — Jerome Bruner

I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather,bright and sunny forever. — Santosh Kalwar

Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected. — Michael Lewis

The nature of life is to grow. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend. — Meg Waite Clayton

My uncle used to love me, but she died. — Roger Miller

Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job, people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. — Peter M. Senge

They make a desolation and call it peace. — Agha Shahid Ali

He feels like saying that of course there's lint on Mr. Wiggly, or dust at any rate, or maybe rust; what does she expect, because as she is well aware Mr. Wiggly has been on the shelf for some time. — Margaret Atwood

But how could you guess what the motive was? — Arthur Conan Doyle

Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous. — Confucius

Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions. — Dave Champion