Quotes About Taqi

#1. 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

#2. The only advice I can give you ... is to examine who you are ... Figure out what's important to you. Know yourselves. Know what's in your heart. Don't be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love.

J-Ax

#3. If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

#4. Woe to the man who trusts and puts faith in the smiles of a woman

Shota Rustaveli

#5. He looked as if he was trying to set a new world record in being bored.

Jo Nesbo

#6. I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.

Laraine Day

#7. People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.

Martin O'Malley

#8. Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

#9. He who accuses another of being an evil person says so because he is afraid of him.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

#10. People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.

Fairuza Balk

#11. Your circumstances do not define you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. In a country like America there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

John Amaechi

#13. I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem,
Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams.
I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed,
But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh ...

Kanye West

#14. 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

#15. There a difference between having been coded to present a vast set of standardized responses to certain human facial, vocal, and linguistic states and having evolved to exhibit response B to input A in order to bring about a desired social result?

Catherynne M Valente

#16. Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you.

Rachael Ray

#17. I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

Rebecca Solnit