Tihar Funny Quotes & Sayings

But to hear Mozart in a bombed city: how much more beautiful it sounds, as if it were composed to somehow soothe the ruins, to promise a wiser future rising from the rubble. — Ben Okri

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary. — C.S. Lewis

The higher up the tree a cat climbs, the farther it will fall. It's the same for politicians, except politicians don't bounce. — Michael Dobbs

Justice, of course, was an elusive thing, very subjective in some ways, too often more of a concept than a reality, but without the pursuit of that ideal, where would humanity be? — Linda Lael Miller

That is the way of science and art, it is beloved by your societies and criminalised by your cultures. — Steve Merrick

I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction. — DJ Spooky

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.' — Jamie Foxx

Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer. — Ginni Rometty

Small pleasures must correct great tragedies, therefore of gardens in the midst of war I bold tell. — Vita Sackville-West

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me. — Karl Pilkington

You can no longer hide from me. I am your soul ache come to guide you home. — Karen Clark

No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I. And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions. — William J. Brennan

Books were already a familiar refuge, after all, and they still took me in without the slightest judgment. They don't close to you the way a person can. You might feel as though you don't belong anywhere, least of all in your own home, you might feel bound to a person whose actions you abhor yet unable to divorce yourself, struggling to individuate in their shadow - "all these feelings you wouldn't dare articulate to another person, no matter how highly trained - but you can bring your whole untempered self to books. You can ask them anything, and though you may need to search for the resonant lines, though the answer may come at a slant, they will always speak to you, they will always let you in. — Carolina De Robertis