Shamit Dua Quotes & Sayings

This surely is a good rule: whenever you see a fault in any other man, or any other church, look for it in yourself and in your own church. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Still, there was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. And the reply was, Eat the strawberries. — Neil Gaiman

Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told.
"Right," simon said. He had already lost count of the numbers of birds there were. Seven, he guessed. A secret that's never been told. Whatever that was. — Cassandra Clare

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience . — Matthew Arnold

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business. — Benicio Del Toro

If things go badly for me tonight, I want you to stay with Mr. Wynter; he will pay you a decent wage."
"Will he make me bathe?"
"No, he will debate the matter with you until you decide to wash."
"Ah. One of those. — Eoin Colfer

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge. — David Cronenberg

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith! — Donna Mills

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly. — Sinead O'Connor

The only way to clamp down on my energy is to erase my emotions, and so I fold them each away, one by one. My sorrow turns to anger, then to ice-cold fury. My soul curls in one itself in defense. I am gone. I am truly gone.
I am not sorry. — Marie Lu

Agile Manifesto." It declared the following values: people over processes; products that actually work over documenting what that product is supposed to do; collaborating with customers over negotiating with them; and responding to change over following a plan. Scrum is the framework I built to put those values into practice. There is no methodology. — Jeff Sutherland

We do not demonstrate against anything. Our group is about being for something, never against. No antis except on my family tree. — Julia Glass

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul. — Barbara Ehrenreich

One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!' — Nathan Lane