Babur's Quotes

#1. The city was different back then
poor and crumbling
kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her.

Candace Bushnell

#2. The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same.
The foam that floats in the pools
Now gathering, now vanishing
Never lasts long. So it is with man
and all his dwelling places on this earth.

Kamo No Chomei

#3. Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.

Babur

#4. I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

Becky G

#5. Do you know that I have a right to do as I like with you, - that I can kill you, if I please?" "You

Harriet Jacobs

#6. Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

Yann Martel

#7. I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.

Sharad Pawar

#8. There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

Shannon Hale

#9. Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.

Babur

#10. Unlike most travel writers, he [Babur] is honest.

Rory Stewart

#11. Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

George Crabbe

#12. My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant

Babur

#13. The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

Albert Einstein

#14. Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.

Babur

#15. I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

Mary Douglas

#16. He might be an alpha wolf but so was she. She didn't take well to orders, even if they were from her mate.

Savannah Stuart

#17. I never really cared too much for people who made fun of themselves. There's so many people out there that do a really good job with that. Why add to it?" Georgie - Struggles of the Women Folk

T.M. Brown

#18. Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

Edsger Dijkstra