Shokeen In English Quotes & Sayings

Not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions. — Cornelia Parker

Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution?
Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore. — Jay Leno

Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself, not rating yourself against others. — Martin E.P. Seligman

But it was not merely the pagans who made this connection of heavenly physical bodies with heavenly spiritual powers. The Old Testament itself equates the sun, moon, and stars with the angelic "sons of God" who surround God's throne, calling them both the "host of heaven" (Deut. 4:19; 32:8-9).[10] Jewish commentator Jeffrey Tigay writes, "[These passages] seem to reflect a Biblical view that ... as punishment for man's repeated spurning of His authority in primordial times (Gen. 3-11), God deprived mankind at large of true knowledge of Himself and ordained that it should worship idols and subordinate celestial beings."[11] — Brian Godawa

Mercy.
Do any of the gods care about such things or only that their contracts and agreements are fulfilled? — T.K. Thorne

I can levitate birds. No one cares. — Woody Allen

Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in case he was suddenly attacked by a multiplication problem or something. — Alan Sitomer

I'll call you tomorrow," he said softly.
Incapable of speech at the moment, Everly could only nod.
At the door, Cooper turned to give her a grin. "By the way. Best. Date. Ever. — Paige Tyler

There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing,
or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimes
it would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was ... — Anne Enright

Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke. — Toni Morrison

There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve. — George Orwell