Mohammad Sabbir Shaikh > Mohammad Sabbir 's Quotes

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“A man never is quite such an abject specimen as his wife makes him look,”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Captain's Doll

“Every man has made a ghastly fool of himself with a woman at some time or other.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Captain's Doll

“All our troubles, says somebody wise, come upon us because we cannot be alone.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Captain's Doll

“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
― Tuli Kupferberg

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“she knew that Grandmother was no longer with them. The dazed look in the old man's eyes told her as much. She wanted to cry — not for Grandmother, who could suffer no more, but for Grandfather, who looked so helpless and bewildered; she did not want him to be unhappy.”
― Ruskin Bond, Children's Omnibus

“So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married.

But that is a story for grown-ups.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“ It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.”
― Eiichiro Oda

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning