"I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival."

-- Muhammad Iqbal

#Rivals Quotes #Poet Quotes

“If we start worrying whether our nose is too big or too small, we should think, “What if I had no head? - now that would be a problem!” As long as we have life, we should rejoice. If everything doesn't go exactly as we'd like, we can accept it. If we contemplate impermanence deeply, patience and compassion will arise. We will hold less to the apparent truth of our experience, and the mind will become more flexible. Realizing that one day this body will be buried or burned, we will rejoice in every moment we have rather than make ourselves or others unhappy.”
“As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.”

Source : Frederick Russell Burnham, Mary Nixon Everett (1944). “Taking chances”
“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.167, Profile Books
“I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.”
“There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Glamour is when a man knows a woman is a woman.”
“To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.”
“The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.”

Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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