"Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails."

-- Fay Weldon

#Wind Quotes #Sail Quotes #Critics Quotes

“From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.”
“I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.”
“Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.”
“I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.”
“Were still gonna do those things not because weve got nothing to lose.. were still gonna do them because.. WERE RICH BIATCH!!”
“Every single success you experience is a combination of two things: your effort and Allah's help. When you don't put in enough effort, Allah does not give His barakah. And sometimes you might put in a lot of effort but you may not see the result you expected. That, also, is Allah's barakah.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Dec 30, 2014
“Maybe thatâ€™s why Iâ€™ve made it as far as I have â€“ 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion Iâ€™d still be in Nova Scotia. Or else Iâ€™d never have started. Iâ€™ve seen people in so much pain. The little bit of pain Iâ€™m going through is nothing. They canâ€™t shut it off, and I canâ€™t shut down every time I feel a little sore.”
“O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc”

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