Syaaban Quotes & Sayings

Happy are those who live under a discipline which they accept without question, who freely obey the orders of leaders, spiritual or temporal, whose word is fully accepted as unbreakable law; or those who have, by their own methods, arrived at clear and unshakeable convictions about what to do and what to be that brook no possible doubt. I can only say that those who rest on such comfortable beds of dogma are victims of forms of self-induced myopia, blinkers that may make for contentment, but not for understanding of what it is to be human. — Isaiah Berlin

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales. — Zig Ziglar

The fundamental error of Romanticism is to confuse what we need with what we desire. We all need certain basic things for life's preservation and continuance; we all desire a more perfect life, complete happiness, the fulfilment of our dreams and ... ..

It's human to want what we need, and it's human to desire what we don't need but find desirable. Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what's desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread. The Romantic malady is to want the moon as if it could actually be obtained. — Fernando Pessoa

Will and George were doing well in business, and Joe was writing letters home in rhymed verse and making as smart an attack on all the accepted verities as was healthful.

Samuel wrote to Joe, sayings, "I would be disappointed if you had not become an atheist, and I read pleasantly that you have, in your age and wisdom, accepted agnosticism the way you'd take a cookie on a full stomach. But I would ask you with all my understanding heart not to try to convert your mother. Your last letter only made her think you are not well. Your mother does not believe there are many ills uncurable by good strong soup. She puts your brave attack on the structure of our civilization down to a stomach ache. It worries her. Her faith is a mountain, and you, my son, haven't even got a shovel yet. — John Steinbeck

I'm born in Liverpool, I'm a Liverpool supporter. — Steven Gerrard

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. — Gordon Parks

You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution. — Jay Maisel

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker. — Beeban Kidron

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest. — James Levine

Falling in love is fucking hard on the knees, especially on the untried and unwilling ones. — Elle Aycart

Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to be joked about. — Charlie Huston

i did not die, yet nothing of life remained. — Dante Alighieri

The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals. — Lal Bahadur Shastri

What will you do now with the gift of your left life? — Carol Ann Duffy