Dumyat Quotes

#1. Again, I must stress that this is my reading now of what happened then. Or rather, my memory now of my reading then of what was happening at the time.

Julian Barnes

#2. Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

Sam Kean

#3. Being seasick at sea is not the same as being homesick at home.

Miriam Toews

#4. if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either.

Crystal Bowersox

#6. I wouldn't mind being the male Adele. She came along, and people were like, 'Damn, we haven't heard anyone this real for years.'

Tom Odell

#7. Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Lynn Abbey

#8. A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. We gave him to a family with a farm, Son, his father had said when he got home from school.

Anna Quindlen

#10. Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross.

F.K. Preston

#11. True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship. (Desiring God, 81-82)

John Piper

#12. Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide.

Murad Wilfried Hofmann

#13. Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will
my soul do thy lord?
Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.
Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)

Christopher Marlowe

#14. In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on the spot, I felt compelled to treat him cordially.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. She pulsed, invisibly, like a quasar. I can't describe women, but if you know Duke Pearson's 'After the rain', she was as beautiful and pure as that. Real things had happened to her to make her how she was and I wanted to know them, and read them, like a book.

David Mitchell