Sohaila Abdulali Quotes & Sayings

Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over. — Tony Hsieh

I stared at the reproduced mural in the book
but I was more interested in his finger as he tapped the book with approval. That finger had pulled a trigger in a war. That finger had touched my mother in tender ways I did not fully comprehend. I wanted to talk, to say something, to ask questions. But I couldn't. All the words were stuck in my throat. So I just nodded. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,
Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar? — Walter Scott

I really do the conventions now for two reasons. — Rene Auberjonois

The traditional Chinese kingdoms operated under centuries of constraints on commerce. The building of walls on their borders had been a way of limiting such trade and literally keeping the wealth of the nation intact and inside the walls. For such administrators, giving up trade goods was the same as paying tribute to their neighbors, and they sought to avoid it as much as they could. The Mongols directly attacked the Chinese cultural prejudice that ranked merchants as merely a step above robbers by officially elevating their status ahead of all religions and professions, second only to government officials. In a further degradation of Confucian scholars, the Mongols reduced them from the highest level of traditional Chinese society to the ninth level, just below prostitutes but above beggars. — Jack Weatherford

I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward. — Wes Anderson

Now flip, flop, and fly, I don't care if I die. — Big Joe Turner

Money without brains is always dangerous. — Napoleon Hill

I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken. — Wang Leehom

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord. — Thor Heyerdahl

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. — Anna Brownell Jameson

Deep in the frozen regions of the north,
A goddess violated brought thee forth,
Immortal Liberty! — Tobias Smollett