Siddiqua Bilgrami Quotes & Sayings

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education. — Henry James

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way. — Blake Lively

We're born with a mapped-out route. This one, not that one. Who you dream with. Who you love. It's one or the other. You choose without choosing. That's how it is. Each of us travels on their own path. Besides, how do you love someone without truly knowing who they are? How do you travel that distance when there's all that you don't know about the other? — Susana Fortes

Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko — Haruki Murakami

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. — Sidney Poitier

When asked how he had had such an impact as a great sage and leader in the twentieth-century Jewish world, the Chafetz Chaim answered, "I set out to try to change the world, but I failed. So I decided to scale back my efforts and only try to influence the Jewish community of Poland, but I failed there, too. So I targeted the community in my hometown of Radin, but achieved no greater success. Then I gave all my effort to changing my own family, and failed at that as well. Finally, I decided to change myself, and that's how I had such an impact on the Jewish world. — Alan Morinis

If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm! — Lewis Carroll

A world without a kind young man who wished to help a servant girl read the Bible, who smiled often, and who bandaged a servant's blistered hands would have been a sadder world. — Melanie Dickerson

Luck? If the roof fell in and Diz (Dean) was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried and a gumdrop would fall in his mouth. — Leo Durocher

We want to recast the debate shifting from arguments over origins (is homosexuality 'in born' or 'chosen'?)...In our view, it does not matter how one becomes homosexual, because there is nothing wrong with homosexuality... We believe that the freedom to be different and act differently should not depend on whether or not an individual is 'born that way. — Janet R. Jakobsen

When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love
(April 2012, O Magazine) — Anne Lamott

Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea? — Rupert Brooke

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome. — Margaret J. Wheatley

I believe a big part of leadership is about winning the moment. — Mike Krzyzewski