Nizami Quotes

#1. I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

M.I.A.

#2. Praise means nothing to Mama, she doesn't believe it. Only criticism can flush her cheeks and catch her attention. If I were to say something disparaging she would remember it always.

Audrey Niffenegger

#3. Thus many a melody passed to and fro between the two nightingales, drunk with their passion. Those who heard them listened in delight, and so similar were the two voices that they sounded like a single chant. Born of pain and longing, their song had the power to break the unhappiness of the world.

Nizami Ganjavi

#4. He who searches for his beloved is not afraid of the world.

Nizami Ganjavi

#5. The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

Rachel Holmes

#6. I had come alive here ... this was my home, and though one day it would all trickle through my fingers like so much red dust, for as long as childhood lasted it was a heaven fitted exactly to me. A place I knew by heart. The one place in the world I'd been made for.

Paula McLain

#7. Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#8. In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nizami Ganjavi

#9. Free is a man who has no desires.

Nizami Ganjavi

#10. Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which is why, in an era of gaudy and gifted media, evil may vastly magnify its damage by the power of horrific images.

Lance Morrow

#11. The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

James Monroe