Simurgh Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

I find it really liberating to be in a place where I am a foreigner in every way. I've lived with this all my life - this divide, this bifurcation. And in Italy, I don't feel it. There's none of that tension, only the expectation I place on myself to speak the language well. I find it relaxing. Something drops away, and I observe. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage. — William Shakespeare

Your father and I will deal with him."
"What are you going to do?" I say.
"We will talk to him."
I snort.
"Yeah, that's going to work. — Carolyn MacCullough

Now we Democrats, well, we're all for higher taxes, right? But man do we hate to pay those taxes, and most of the politicians I worked for took advantage of every tax loophole they could find, and if they couldn't find it, they'd just legislate one out of thin air. That's the D.C. way. Tax policy is a means to buy votes, but at the end of the day, we all share in a mutual disdain for government. It's — D.W. Ulsterman

I don't need to be 19 years old or starve myself for some weight or turn men's heads down that road. And thank God I finally know that. — Trisha Yearwood

Your own death is something that happens to everyone else. — Sherlock

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Every man is grave alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remorse," she said, with great gusto. "Remorse? — Agatha Christie

A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit — Alex Tabarrok

I do not know what will be the end of it. — Ann Rinaldi

I always win, I'm cursed to win. — Silvio Berlusconi

I can only gesture at what makes a story good. — Leonard Michaels

What really matters are the lives you touch along the way and how you finish your journey. — Nick Vujicic

We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center. — Richard Wilhelm