Nusrat Mahmood > Nusrat's Quotes

“The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.”
― Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“ইংরেজের এই ন্যায়বিচারের প্রতীক ঐ সুপ্রিম কোর্টের চূড়া। লোকে এই পথ দিয়ে যাওয়ার সময় ভক্তিভরে সেদিকে তাকায়। এখনো কেউ জানে না যে বিচার ব্যাবস্থার এই আড়ম্বর ইংরেজ জাতির একটি বিলাসিতা মাত্র। প্রয়োজনের সময় এইসব বিলাসিতা ছেঁটে ফেলতে তারা একটুও দ্বিধা করে না।”
― Sunil Gangopadhyay, Those Days | Sei Somoy

“আত্মগোপন করতে গিয়ে কিছুদিন পর অনেকে আত্মপরিচয়টাই ভুলে যায়।”
― Sunil Gangopadhyay, পূর্ব-পশ্চিম

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

“There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow”
― Gandhi, Mahatma

“I am a mathematician, sir. I never permit myself to think.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Hollow Man

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“... বন্ধু পাওয়া যায় সেই ছেলেবেলায় স্কুল-কলেজেই। প্রাণের বন্ধু। তারপর আর না।"

"আর না? সারা জীবনে আর না?"

"জীবন জুড়ে যারা থাকে তারা কেউ কারো বন্ধু নয়। তারা দু'রকমের। এনিমি আর নন-এনিমি। নন-এনিমিদেরই বন্ধু বলে ধরতে হয়।”
― শিবরাম চক্রবর্তী, ঈশ্বর পৃথিবী ভালবাসা

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
― Lorrie Moore, Like Life

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

“Love is on every side, and no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane