Taslimi Y Quotes & Sayings

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]! — Zig Ziglar

Cass had a few points but, really, a vampire? Who believed in such a myth? What was Cass suggesting anyway? That I grab my rosary and head for the nearest church begging for holy water? Line my door and windows with salt? Sleep with a wooden stake under my pillow? Hang garlic bulbs from my bedroom door? Why was I even considering these options? — Jayde Scott

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals. — Philip Larkin

We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is. — Richard M. Nixon

This is where I go, when I go:
It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through.
I'm there, but I'm not there.
I am pounding to be let out, but nobody can hear me.
This is where I go, when I go:
To a country where everyone's face looks different from mine, and the language is the act of not speaking, and noise is everywhere in the air we breathe. I am doing what the Romans do in Rome; I am trying to communicate, but no one has bothered to tell me that these people cannot hear.
This is where I go, when I go:
Somewhere completely, unutterably orange.
This is where I go, when I go:
To the place where my body becomes a piano full of black keys only - the sharps and the flats, when everyone know that to play a song other people want to hear, you need some white keys.
This is why I come back:
To find those white keys. — Jodi Picoult

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. — Robert Mondavi

The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students. — Clark Kerr

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry. — Maurice Gibb

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives. — Jim Rohn

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue — Kabir

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness. — Danny Boyle

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross. — James A. Baldwin

Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded. — Vance Havner

Life is not a competition. — Lailah Gifty Akita