Taimur Quotes & Sayings

You are going to be what you put in your body, so I try to teach that to my kids, and the kids around me. — Emeril Lagasse

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always
comes to mar our joys. — Ovid

Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing. — Manil Suri

I value other traits above an affinity for torture and power over those weaker than oneself. I value brilliant minds, honest souls, and those with long endurance. I forge relationships based on trust and mutual respect, not fear and control. — Tricia Levenseller

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good. — Hannah More

Christian, how did you enjoy comfort before? Was the creature anything to you but a conduit, a pipe, that conveyed God's goodness to you? 'The pipe is cut off,' says God, 'come to me, the fountain, and drink immediately.' Though the beams are taken away, yet the sun remains the same in the firmament as ever it was. — Jeremiah Burroughs

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience. — Diane Keaton

Bad things happen for something, good things happen because we deserve them — Felipe

I am not an Englishman, nor are you. Nor can we ever be, regardless of our foxtrots, our straight bats, our Jolly Goods and I Says.
No more the Anglicized Percy, I.
I am now Taimur Hind. — Kamila Shamsie

Literature has always carried positive connotations in the world of luxury goods. — Michel Houellebecq

Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win. — Robert G. Allen

Sometimes parents loved their sons so much that they made a romance out of their lives. They thought our youth could help us overcome everything. Maybe moms and dads forgot about this one small fact: being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen could really suck. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The religious feeling engendered by experiencing the logical comprehensibility of profound interrelations is of a somewhat different sort from the feeling that one usually calls religious. It is more a feeling of awe at the scheme that is manifest in the material universe. It does not lead us to take the step of fashioning a god-like being in our own image - a personage who makes demands of us and who takes an interest in us as individuals. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being. — Rebecca Goldstein

Emma Watson in white on the cover of Vogue ("The Super Star Issue"), — Robert Galbraith

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family. — Philip Levine