"The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'. 'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours."

-- Mohsin Hamid

#Dark Quotes #Black And White Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.”
“Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.”

Source : Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe, Theophrastus (1713). “The characters, or, the manners of the present age”, p.41
“I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.”
“Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.”

Source : Tavis Smiley (2013). “Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure”, p.133, Hay House, Inc
“A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.”
“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”
“I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.”
“Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq.”

Source : "Who Is Iraq’s 'Firebrand Cleric'?". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. March 31, 2008.

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