Suhaili Quotes & Sayings

It will be all right if it turns out all right. — Ulysses S. Grant

FIVE KINDS OF FOLLY The Sages have said that five things are signs of foolishness: First, seeking one's own good while harming others; Second, looking for the yield of the last days without discipline and service; Third, loving women harshly and brashly; Fourth, seeking to learn the refinements of science in comfort and ease; Fifth, expecting friendship without oneself being reliable and trustworthy. (Anwar-i-Suhaili) — Idries Shah

As swords were designed to kill
They did well to make them tongue-shaped.

(Anwar-i-Suhaili) — Idries Shah

Running to join them, he felt overwhelming joy. It was as if he were coming home from a lashing winter storm to the warmth of his living room. The sky seemed brilliantly blue and clear, although he knew it was overcast. If he didn't move his legs faster, his heart would outpace his feet and burst. His heart, his whole body, was overflowing with an emotion that he could only describe as love. — Karl Marlantes

The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide. — Walter Lippmann

Learning without action is like wax without honey.
(Anwar-i-Suhaili) — Idries Shah

In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made. — William Monahan

My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar. — Richelle Mead

Chipmunks have the best instinct: run and hide. — Marty Rubin

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth. — Sri Aurobindo

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. — Samuel Smiles

Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies. — Brian Eno

IMPRESSIONS
Time brought a thousand impressions.
Not one of them had I seen in the mirror of the imagination.
(Anwar-i-Suhaili) — Idries Shah

Crazy's favorite shape is a circle. — R.K. Lilley

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good. — Colin Baker

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. — Robert Benchley

THE BIRD AND THE WATER
A bird which has not heard of fresh water
Dips his beak in salt-water year after year.
(Anwar-i-Suhaili) — Idries Shah