Quotation

History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world
and forcing Islam at the point of sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated.

De Lacy O'Leary in 'Islam at the Crossroads,' London, 1923. Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Joseph Addison

Talk uses up ideas.... Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow

Doris Grumbach

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Think before you act!

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Georges Bernanos

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

George Bernard Shaw

'Travel is glamorous only in retrospect
PAUL THEREOUX'





This is his first punishment that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted

Juvenal (C 60 - 130 AD)

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

Edith Hamilton

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat...where in this ****phor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translation.
Ezra Pound

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

John French

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

Richard Chevenix Trench

Words have the power to both destroy and heal.
When words are both true and kind,
They can change our world

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes




What is the importance of a name? That to which we have given the name of a rose would continue to have the same sweet smell even if we were to give it some other name

William Shakespeare

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak

Ausonius

What is the importance of a name? That to which we have given the name of a rose would continue to have the same sweet smell even if we were to give it some other name

William Shakespeare

Woe to the nation that dosen't raise its voice, save in a funeral, that shows esteem only at the grave, that waits to rebel until its neck is under the edge of the sword

Jubran Kalil Jubran
(1883 - 1931)

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Eugene Ionesco

How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in his/her own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores and attitudes. The chances of us meeting someone else who talks the exact same language is pretty remote

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Italo Calvino



Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate

John Kenndy
(1917 - 1963

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
Vaclav Havel

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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich

John Kennedy
(1917 - 1963)
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Elie Wiesel

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best can not be expected to be quite true.

Samuel Johnson


The quality of mercy is not strain'd
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616





The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God

Jubran Khalil Jubran
(1883 - 1931)

Life is nothing if not a daring adventure

Helen Keller

"Education is a process of living and not a preparation for future living." ~~ John Dewey (1859 - 1952





Free people may be alike everywhere in their freedom but the oppressed inhabit each their own peculiar hell

Chinua Achebe
(1930 - )

A word is dead
When it is said
Some say

I say it just
Begins to live
That day

Emily Dicknson
(1803 - 1866)
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The way to get on as a lady is the same as the way to get on as a servant: you've got to know your place: thats the secret of it

George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao-Tzu

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

James Allen

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

James Allen

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

James Allen

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study

This very remarkable man
Commends a most practical plan:
You can do what you want if you don’t think you can’t,
So don’t think you can’t think you can.

Charles Inge 1868-1957, on the French psychologist Emile Coué

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To those of you who received honors, awards, and distinctions,
I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

George W. Bush

Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.

William Lyon Phelps

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life




Advice is seldom welcome, and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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There is always room at the top.

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Beware of the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

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A blind man knows he can not see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Samuel Butler

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. .

Mother Teresa

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Richard Bach





If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

You cannot argue with someone who denies the first principles.

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It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.
Kurdish Proverb


'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where --' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Henry Ward Beecher



When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Alexander Chase

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Akhenaton

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Lord Chesterfield

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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli

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[Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Delmore Schwartz

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Theresa

Dreams are not what you see when you are asleep, but dreams are the one which does not let you sleep until they are achieved

TIME is like the river, you can not touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again…enjoy every moment of your life or feel regretted throughout your life

An arrow can be shot only by dragging it back.
So, when life is dragging you back with difficulties
it means that it is going to launch you into victory

As we sail through life,
Don’t avoid storms and rough waters.
Just let it pass.
Just Sail
Always remember,
Calm seas never make skillful sailors

You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Les Brown

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose -- and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.

Leo Buscaglia

Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.
Anonymous

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
Anonymous

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An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep..
Anonymous Arabic Proverb

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Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and, you weep alone
Anonymous
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr

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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anyone

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Mark Twain