Mir Taqi Quotes

#1. Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance - or in insanity.

Erich Fromm

#2. The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.

Richard Whately

#3. Once through this ruined city did I pass
I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked
'What knowest thou of this wilderness?'
It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words:
'Alas, Alas!

Khushwant Singh

#4. I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

Kim Dotcom

#5. I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do.

Greta Van Susteren

#6. As luck would have it, I happened to have a top hat that I previously wore to my junior prom.

Chris Gethard

#7. an Urdu couplet by one of his favorite poets, Mir Taqi Mir: Jis sar ko ghurur aaj hai yaan taj-vari ka Kal uss pe yahin shor hai phir nauhagari ka The head which today proudly flaunts a crown Will tomorrow, right here, in lamentation drown

Arundhati Roy

#8. In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory

Ludwig Boltzmann

#9. The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

Simon Mainwaring

#10. Never fret, my love, the universe always balances the scales. Her ways may be mysterious, but they are always just." Isabelle Dallaire, "Gram

Mia Sheridan

#11. Graduate college, win Pam, get job, make babies, move ahead in job, forget former feeling of special destiny ...

George Saunders

#12. The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.

Dennis Lehane

#13. ... there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

John Irving

#14. They were running for their lives, and when you ran for your life you had to do things, brutal things.

Stephen Lloyd Jones