Aitmatov Quotes

#1. He is omnipresent not only virtually but also substantially. ... In him all things are contained and move, but he does not act on them nor they on him. ... He is always and everywhere. ... He is all eye, all ear, all brain, all arm, all force of sensing, of understanding, and of acting.5

James Gleick

#2. Nature of life is fragile. Uncontrollable events happen all the time in life.

Kishore Bansal

#3. Even now I often ask myself: perhaps love produces a feeling of inspiration similar to that experienced by an artist or a poet?

Chingiz Aitmatov

#4. Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.

Matt Haig

#5. I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.

Bob Hartley

#6. Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength.

Sivananda

#7. The idea that traumatic residues - or unresolved stories - can be inherited is groundbreaking.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

Beth Gibbons

#9. There will be winter, there will be cold, there will be snowstorms, but then there will be spring.. Agian..

Chingiz Aitmatov

#10. But you no longer heard the song. You had gone away, my boy, into your tale. Did you know that you would never turn into a fish, that you would never reach Issyk-Kul, or see the white ship, or say to it: "Hello, white ship, it's I"?
You swam away.

Chingiz Aitmatov

#11. I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?

Chingiz Aitmatov

#12. We need more citizens that are committed and courageous.

Tariq Ramadan

#13. As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that,

Gene Sharp

#14. ...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

David Foster Wallace

#15. It is a pity the spirit does not grow old too.

Chingiz Aitmatov