"Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight."

-- Muhammad Iqbal

#Heart Quotes #Sight Quotes #Flames Quotes

“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.”

Source : Letter to Denis Diderot. "The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany". Book by Colin Bingham, 1969.
“I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.”
“I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.”
“You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.”
“Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.”

Source : "Wonkbook: Ben Bernanke’s surprisingly excellent, radical speech" by Ezra Klein, Evan Soltas, www.washingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013.
“One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the attack is parried, there usually are still opportunities left for initiating action in another sector.”
“Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.”
“I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.”

Source : Jean Giono, John Cumming (2001). “An Italian Journey”, p.30, Northwestern University Press

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